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Our research so far has identified the possible, or probable, location of various "constructions" in Mixbury which played key parts in its history e.g.

• Where a crop mark suggests there was a big semi-circular ditch to the north of the castle site.

• The probable locations of Mixbury's Saxon church, and Saxon mill (also at Fulwell).

• The "big house" at Fulwell and the possible site of the medieval Fulwell village

• The Iron Age/Roman road (Margary 56a) from Evenley, and its route to the east of the village.

• The sites of sunken buildings to the south-west of the village.

• The site of Beaumont Castle!

Where we have an owner's permission, a first step will be to undertake geophysics examinations to see what lies beneath. Of course, we realise the limitations of this approach but feel it is a reasonable first step. 3 years ago Fusion, an enabling company for HS2, offered to ask their archaeologists to examine these sites for us, but this has come to nothing. The project at present is stalled while we try to obtain funding to employ archaeologists, or someone who will work pro bono.

For an Article on this click here.

Locating the village boundaries and mapping all features in the village on the same scale.

There was no tithe map, so the 1730 enclosure settlement identified boundaries and fields by names known at that time - few of which exist today!

(a minor, but Lord of the Manor when his father died in 1871, for whom his father had appointed guardians) versus Batson (his mother) in the Court of Chancery in the early 1870s. The case resulted in the Court instructing that the old village be demolished and a new "model village" be built, that which we can see today.

It was a Saxon village in its own right (about 500 acres); given with Mixbury (about 2000 acres) to Robert d’Oily by William 1 after the Conquest: kept by d’Oily after he gave the rest of Mixbury to Roger d’Ivry in 1077; granted in 1205 to Oseney Abbey, followed by Mixbury in 1215; used as one of Oseney's bailiwicks, run from a “grange” for its sheep business which, because of enclosure, depopulated the hamlet resulting in Fulwell losing its independent status in 1435; acquired by Sir John Wellesbourne with Mixbury after the Dissolution, he built his manorial home there; continued as Mixbury’s Lord of the Manor’s “big house” until it was pulled down shortly before 1768. What was so attractive at Fulwell that d'Oily kept it for himself in 1077, and successive owners up to the mid 18th century used it as a key place in their business or domestic lines? Was their a fulling mill there? Our working hypothesis at present, informed by its location, road patterns in the area and other settlement is that it there was a Roman farm or Villa there.

These are currently at the draft stage:

• Mixbury: Its History and Archaeology (first draft October 2018)

• The History of the Church in Mixbury pre-1900 (third draft September 2020)

• The Church in Mixbury in the 20th and 21st centuries (second draft July 2020)

We have to tie up loose ends on copyright and find the best publisher who will facilitate a "cut price" deal for Mixbury people and give any profits to a charity nominated by Mixburyites.

This will tell the story of Mixbury, including the church, and house artifacts, pottery sherds, maps, diagrams etc. The option preferred by the parishioners is to create a facility in the church itself. For an article on this click here.