Ascott Under Wychwood, Church View 1950
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Photo of Ascott Under Wychwood, Church View 1950

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Like other villages that are found along the course of the River Evenlode and its tributary streams, Ascott-under-Wychwood's function was milling. Settlements grew up around the mills powered by fast-running streams that manufactured woollen cloth and ground corn.

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 our ...see more