Ascott Under Wychwood, 1950
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Photo of Ascott Under Wychwood, 1950

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Along the Evenlode, that gentle Cotswold stream, stands a string of villages all 'under Wychwood', that ancient wood that still remains one of the most extensive stretches of woodland in Oxfordshire, but which in earlier times was a substantial forest. With its neighbouring village Shipton-Under-Wychwood, Ascott had a reputation for harbouring poachers in earlier centuries.

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A Selection of Memories from Ascott-under-Wychwood

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Ascott-under-Wychwood

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A few years ago my brother and I visited Ascott-under-Wychwood. My father's family, surname "Venville", lived there for a very long time. Venville as a surname was rather rare and it wasn't until the wife of a Venville family member in Wales did some research on the name back in the early l990s that we found out about our family connections to Ascott. In the late l950s our family, in ...see more