ISLIP
River Ray was called Giht
in medieval times, and sleb meant slippery place hence Gihtsleb or
Islip slippery place by the river.
Population
2002 - 589 with 485 electors
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| Islip is the birthplace of King Edward the
Confessor - born in Islip in the year 1005. When he visited St
Peter's Rome he vowed to built the Abbey of St Peter at
Westminster and endowed it with the lands and buildings of the
village of Islip where he had been born, this endowment also
included Noke and other lands in the area.. The words of the
King's charter are underneath a painting of the King Edward in the
north aisle. The oldest part of the present church dates to the
end of the 12th century; but the main part of the church was
rebuilt in the 14th century and the tower was added in the 15th.
The church was damaged during the Civil War during the
Battle of Islip Bridge (28th February 1645). Other celebrated
people who have had links with the village include Simon Islip,
Archbishop of Canterbury from 1349-1366; Abbot John Islip, Abbot
of Westminster in 1500; Dr Robert South, a notable benefactor who
founded the local school in 1710 and William Buckland, Rector of
Islip and Dean of Westminster 1845-1856.
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Up to date local information on
Islip Village Web Site:
http://www.islip.org.uk/
This
picture is from the Islip Oxfordshire video project
web site, see where this picture was taken and when
Islip. The Village video documentary 2002 Contact Jojo
01865 842893 underc@gn.apc.org.
www.undercurrents.org/islip.htm
Details
of St Nicholas's Church
Lower
Street 3 January 2003
New Floods July 2007
Edward the Confessor Mosaic unveiled on 26th November 2005
The Edward the Confessor Mosaic commemorating his millennium year was unveiled
at the Three Parishes Fair on 26th November. Thank to Michele Rose
(Islip artist/art teacher) for making this project happen and to Becky Paton
(Beckley mosaic artist) for sharing her expertise. Michele and Becky designed
the mosaic and together led some fun community workshops to create it. Thanks to
Phil, Michele's husband, and to John Sargent for putting it up. Also thanks to
the Village Hall Committee for agreeing where to put it up...and for arranging
for it to be appropriately flood lit.
Mosaic also unveiled at Dr South's School
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Islip Bridge of the
river
Ray & Swan Inn |
Red Lion Islip Tel 01865 375367 |
The Red Lion
was built close to the site of the Royal Hunting Lodge where King Edward the Confessor was
born
Wooster Arms once a public house on the way to "Wooster"
(Worcester)
The village
shop closed at the end of May 2000 when the Chris & Janet Busby retired.
Islip Parish
Church
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Swan Inn - During the Civil War in the 17th
century, the Inn and Boat Building yard that is now the car park, was run
by a Mr Beckley, ancestor of Mr Chris Beckley of Horton cum Studley. Mr
Beckley used his boats to ferry the parliamentary army into Oxford when
the city was captured from the Royalist forces. The Beckley family
were given the fishing rights on the river as a reward that they held
until early in the 20th century. Chris Beckley's father who now
lives in Somerset still has a boat building chisel from the boatyard. Mr
Beckley was probably descended from Sir Thomas de Beckleye of the village
of Noke who in 14th (1481)Year of King Richard II on 18 June that year
held lands lately held by Simpson Foliot and afterwards Warin de Lyle
rendering yearly at Michaelmas 2s 6d. In
1481 the people that held land in Islip are named as Roger Powr, John Gay,
Richard Wilyamscote, Margaret Newer, John Overage who held the weir and
fisheries, Richard Clark and William Follare. The
by-laws held at the Centre for Oxford Studies, Cowley. |
Islip
Village Hall Islip Village Hall. Address:
Kidlington Road Islip Kidlington Oxfordshire. Info: Village Hall. www.oxfordshire.co.uk/data/019230.html
Islip
Football Club, Oxfordshire Online
Community Groups Football: Men Islip
Football Club Ground: Islip
Village Ground, Church Lane, Islip
Contact Mr F Butler (Sec) Phone 01865 375367 Red Lion P.H., High Street, Islip
, KIDLINGTON OX5 1QD Area Map SEP 98 ref: 781158176a Other relevant entries http://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/sh.idc-p=781158176a.htm
Millennium of the Birth of
Edward the Confessor 2005
The MBEC Steering
Group is coordinating a whole range of exciting activities/ways to commemorate
this occasion are being planned- resources/grant funding permitting- including
an archaeological dig, coracle making and racing, period music concert, play,
lecture, art exhibition, links with museums, special Edward the Confessor ale, a
commemorative mug, First Day PO cover, historical walking tour and much more……
See full details of events planned
for 2005
Regia Anglorum 2005
Oak
Tree Planting
: This took place on 4th March 2005. Tony Baldry MP has taken children’s
Oak Tree poems to read out at Westminster. Thanks to all those who made this
possible especially Lindsay Stead and thanks to all who attended on such a cold
morning!
Otmoor Archaeological and
Historical Society Lectures:
The first of these by Henrietta
Leyser took place on 2nd March 2005 in the Village Hall - . “Who was
Edward the Confessor?” With a superb attendance of about 100 people. Thank
you very to Henrietta for a very accessible and informative talk. The next OAHS
event will be on 5th September with Dr Paul Binski on
“Westminster Abbey”
Time Team investigate the Archaeology of the village 12-14 May 2005
Red Lion Car Park - nothing found yet |
Villagers have another look |
Mick Aston explains the geophysics showing the
14th Century manor house |
Tony Robinson and Mick Aston - who's going to
speak first |
Artists impression of 11th Century Islip |
Manor House geophysics |
Filming in the Red Lion Car Park, Chris Lowe and friends looking into the hole,
Phil describes the geophysics in the field, Tony and Mick, Artists Impression of
11th Century Islip, Geophysical Results in the field
Click Here!
More pictures of Time team
Saturday 28th May
Regia Anglorum
Saxon living history encampment and arena display Saxons v Viking Battle and
Viking Ship burning
Click Here!
More pictures from 28th May
ISLIP
O HAVE YOU BEEN TO ISLIP?
DOWN BY THE RIVER RAY
WHERE EDWARD THE
CONFESSOR
FIRST SAW THE LIGHT
OF DAY
THE CHARMING
WINDING HIGH STREET
WITH COTTAGES SO NEAT
THE SWAN AND THE
RED LION
WHERE VILLAGE
WORTHIES MEET
THE CHURCH, A HOLY
PLACE
THE CHURCHYARD TO
EXPLORE
WHERE SKIRMISHES
TOOK PLACE
IN THE CIVIL WAR
THE WATER MEADOWS
ANCIENT
WHERE YOU CAN
CONTEMPLATE
THE RECTORY OF DR.
SOUTH
WITH OWLS UPON THE
GATE
THE SCHOOL THE
DOCTOR FOUNDED
STILL BEARS HIS
HONOURED NAME
THE ARCHITECTURE
DIFFERENT
BUT CHILDREN STAY
THE SAME!
THE WAR MEMORIAL
STANDS
SO SILENTLY TO TELL
OF ISLIP BLOOD AND
ISLIP BONE
THAT PITIFULLY FELL
O HAVE YOU BEEN TO
ISLIP?
DOWN BY THE RIVER
RAY
WHERE EDWARD THE
CONFESSOR
FIRST SAW THE LIGHT
OF DAY
DORIS STEELE
ISLIP
CHURCH details:
Islip
Village Hall Shop
They will help
with our applications for grants to equip the shop when it is extended. It is
not too late to add your voice; please pick up a questionnaire at the shop. The
closing date is now the 10th April. We have been asked by some
customers if we would like donations; these, of course, would be extremely
appreciated. Shop fitters who have visited us have recommended more knocking
down of walls. This may mean we have to close for a short time, but every effort
will be made to minimise inconvenience to customers.
If
enough volunteers are available, it would be great to offer longer opening
times. What hours would you like? Feedback from customers would be appreciated.
With a larger shop, it would be better to have two volunteers at a time, one to
operate the till and another to assist customers etc.. Pricing stock and
re-stocking shelves are just as helpful as serving. If you feel you can help in
any way for any amount of time, please contact me.
Our
opening times over Easter have had to change. We will be closed on Good Friday,
Easter Saturday and Easter Monday.
Bread
will be available, on Maundy Thursday, 8th April only if ordered.
Please place your order on the list outside the shop. Bread will be available
from Gordon as well as the Patisserie. You can also order Hot Cross buns from
the Patisserie.
If you
wish to order any Easter Eggs, please do so by 2nd April. A list of
ones available, with prices, is on the notice board outside the shop.
Our
range of Fairtrade products has been extended and we were delighted that so many
of you bought these during Fairtrade Fortnight.
Please
keep suggestions coming of new products. It is impossible to stock everything,
but new ideas are always worth considering. Don’t forget you can always place an
order for specific items. One day’s notice is usually sufficient. Wishing
everyone a very happy and joyous Easter.
Maralynn
Smith
Dr South
and Islip School
This Foundation was started by Dr Robert
South (1634—1716), Rector of Islip and Canon of Christ Church in the late 17th
and early 18th centuries. Its main function is the support of Dr South's Church
of England Primary School at Islip. It can also make grants to students and
apprentices resident in the parish of Islip or in a parish contiguous thereto.
Robert South, was born at Hackney,
Middlesex, in September 1634. He was educated at Westminster school and at
Christ Church, Oxford. Before taking orders in 1658 he was in the habit of
preaching as the champion of Calvinism against Socinianism and Arminianism. He
also at this time showed a leaning to Presbyterianism, but on the approach of
the Restoration his views on church government underwent a change.
On the 10th of August 1660 he was chosen
public orator of the university, and in 1661 domestic chaplain to Lord
Clarendon. In March 1663 he was made prebendary of Westminster, and shortly
afterwards he received from his university the degree of D.D. In 1667 he became
chaplain to the Duke of York. He was a zealous advocate of the doctrine of
passive obedience, and strongly opposed the Toleration Act, declaiming in
unmeasured terms against the various Nonconformist sects. In 1676 he was
appointed chaplain to Lawrence Hyde (afterwards Earl of Rochester),
ambassador-extraordinary to the king of Poland, and of his visit he sent an
interesting account to Edward Pococke in
a letter, dated Dantzic, 16th December, 1677, which was printed along with
South’s Posthumous Works in 1717.
In 1678 he was presented to the rectory
of Islip, Oxfordshire. Owing, it is said, to a personal grudge, South in 1693
published with transparent anonymity Animadversions on Dr Sherlock’s Book,
entitled a Vindication of the Holy and Ever Blessed Trinity, in which the views
of William Sherlock (q.v.) were attacked with much sarcastic bitterness.
Sherlock, in answer, published a Defence in 1694, to which South replied in
Tritheism Charged upon Dr Sherlock’s New Notion of the Trinity, and the Charge
Made Good. The controversy was carried by the rival parties into the pulpit, and
occasioned such keen feeling that the king interposed to stop it. During the
greater part of the reign of Anne South remained comparatively quiet, but in
1710 he ranked himself among the partisans of Sacheverell. He declined the see
of Rochester and the deanery of Westminster in 1713. He died on the 8th of July
1716, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
South had a vigorous style and his
sermons were marked by homely and humorous appeal. His wit generally inclines
towards sarcasm, and it was probably the knowledge of his quarrelsome
temperament that prevented his promotion to a bishopric. He was noted for the
extent of his charities. He published a large number of single sermons, and they
appeared in a collected form in 1692 in six volumes, reaching a second edition
in his lifetime in 1715. There have been several later issues; one in two
volumes, with a memoir (Bohn, 1845). His Opera posthuma latina, including
his will, his Latin poems, and his orations while public orator, with memoirs of
his life, appeared in 1717. An edition of his works in 7 volumes was published
at Oxford in 1823, another in 5 volumes in 1842.
IRELAND, JOHN (1761—1842)
English divine and dean of Westminster, was born at Ashburton, Devonshire, on
the 8th of September 1761, his father being a butcher in that town. For a short
time he worked in a shoemaker’s shop. Subsequently be proceeded to Oxford, and
in due course took holy orders. Through the interest of the earl of Liverpool he
was in 1802 appointed a prebendary of Westminster Abbey, in 1815 he was promoted
to the deanery of Westminster, and from 1816 to 1835 he was also rector of
Islip, Oxfordshire. In 1825 he gave £4000 for the foundation at Oxford of
four “Ireland” scholarships of the value of £30 a year each, “for the
promotion of classical learning and taste.” He also gave £500 to Westminster
school for the establishment of prizes for Latin hexameters. He died at
Westminster on the 2nd of September 1842, and was buried in the abbey.
Dr South’s
CE(Aided) Primary School - - Touch Oxford
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Kidlington Islip Oxon OX5 2ST
Phone: 01865 372323 Fax: 01865 372323. Email: s.currie@dr-souths.oxon.sch.uk ...
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