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Chippinghurst Manor is a
Chippinghurst Manor is a Grade II listed
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country house in Oxfordshire
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, England.
The name of "Chippinghurst" manor means "the hill of Cibba" and appeared as "Cibbaherste" in the 1086 '' Domesday Book''. The Saxon
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peoples whose name was given in the early Middle Ages to a large country (Old Saxony, la, Saxonia) near the Nor ...
settlement there was part of the estate granted to Abingdon in 956, but by 1086 the hamlet and land, assessed as an area of three hides __NOTOC__
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, had passed to William, Count of Évreux. There were two ploughs and one serf
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on the demesne
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; four villeins with two ploughs tended the rest of the manor.
The current manor house dates from the late 16th Century. It was extended in 1937 by R. Fielding Dodd
Ronald ''Fielding'' Dodd ARIBA (c.1890–1958) was a Scotland, Scottish architect, later based in England. He was an Royal Institute of British Architects#Designation, Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
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for James McDougall, of the flour firm, who acquired the property in 1931. The main house is built of coursed limestone rubble with ashlar
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stone quoin
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s. It has a plain-tile roof with brick stacks. It is arranged in a U-shaped layout and has two storeys. The house was Grade II listed
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in 1963.
The couple John Ambler
John Kenneth Ambler (6 June 1924 – 31 May 2008) was a British businessman married to Princess Margaretha of Sweden.
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Ambler was born in Sussex. His parents were Captain Charles Ambler (1896–1954) and Louise Gwendolen Cul ...
(1924–2008), a British businessman, and the Swedish Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler (born 1934) lived here. The property has also been owned by the banker Sir Victor Blank
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The house is close to Cuddesdon and Denton (north), Garsington (northwest), and South Milton (east), in South Oxfordshire. The River Thame runs just to the east of the property. It is part of the hamlet of Chippinghurst.
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