Ampney Crucis

For the 2000 AD character, see Ampney Crucis Investigates.
Ampney Crucis
Ampney Crucis
 Ampney Crucis shown within Gloucestershire
Population 636 
OS grid referenceSP0601
    London 80 mi (130 km)  E
DistrictCotswold
Shire countyGloucestershire
RegionSouth West
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town Cirencester
Postcode district GL7
Dialling code 01285
Police Gloucestershire
Fire Gloucestershire
Ambulance South Western
EU Parliament South West England
UK ParliamentThe Cotswolds
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Coordinates: 51°42′58″N 1°54′25″W / 51.716°N 1.907°W / 51.716; -1.907

Ampney Crucis is a village and civil parish in the Cotswolds, part of the Cotswold District of Gloucestershire, England.

The village is in the Ampney-Coln electoral ward. This ward stretches from Ampney Crucis to Coln St. Dennis in the north. The total population of the ward at the 2011 census was 1,884.[1][2]

The Ampney Brook, a tributary of the River Thames, flows through the village, which is near the smaller villages of Ampney St Mary and Ampney St Peter, and about 3 miles (5 km) east of Cirencester.[3] The village takes its name (Latin for "Ampney of the Cross") from the brook and the 15th century cross in the churchyard of the parish church, the Church of the Holy Rood. This church is a Grade I listed building and the cross is also Grade I listed. The church has Saxon foundations, some Norman structure and some features built in later periods. The tower dates from the 15th century.[4]

In 1671 when households were assessed for the hearth tax, Ampney House was described as a "modest mansion in a park" and had ten hearths, while the Lloyds, the only other gentry family in the village, had seven hearths. Of the remaining dwellings with hearths, ten were exempt on the grounds of poverty while the remaining households each had a single hearth. At that time, apart from the lord of the manor and the Lloyds, the inhabitants of the parish were mostly their tenants; labourers, husbandmen and craftsmen, each with their own patch of ground to supply the family with food.[5]

At the time of the 1086 Domesday Book, the manor was held by Turstin FitzRolf.[6]

References

  1. "Ampney-Coln ward 2011.Retrieved 21 March 2015".
  2. "Parish population 2011.Retrieved 21 March 2015".
  3. Concise Road Atlas of Britain. AA Publishing. 2016. p. 30. ISBN 978-0-7495-7743-8.
  4. "Church of the Holy Rood, Ampney Crucis". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
  5. David Rollison (2011). Commune, Country and Commonwealth: The People of Cirencester, 1117-1643. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. pp. 221–222. ISBN 978-1-84383-671-1.
  6. "The Domesday Book online". Gloucestershire A-F. Retrieved 29 August 2016.

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