South Moreton

South Moreton is an Oxfordshire village and civil parish in England about 3mi east of Didcot and west of Wallingford. It was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred the parish to Oxfordshire and from the former Wallingford Rural District to the new district of South Oxfordshire. HistoryMoretune in the Domesday book is ambiguous but four of the five manor houses are identifiable: Saunderville is still known as 'The Manor', and is a moated manor house with horses grazing in the railed paddocks, seen to advantage from the encroaching railway Huse or Bray is a recently renovated low building nearby, again with a paddock in front of it, at the T-junction at the East end of the village the only trace of Adresham is the terrace upon which it once stood, opposite the village school; there is a 1950s house on the site Fulscot is half a mile west of the village, and is still a self-contained manor farm community. The largest house in South Moreton is none of these, but is The Hall, very close to the Huse, and the last farm in the village. Much Victorian history of the village is recorded in The Rector's Book, handwritten around 1905 from memories stretching back to 1845, and now deposited in the Berkshire County Archives at Reading.

South Moreton is an Oxfordshire village and civil parish in England about 3mi east of Didcot and west of Wallingford. It was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred the parish to Oxfordshire and from the former Wallingford Rural District to the new district of South Oxfordshire. HistoryMoretune in the Domesday book is ambiguous but four of the five manor houses are identifiable: Saunderville is still known as 'The Manor', and is a moated manor house with horses grazing in the railed paddocks, seen to advantage from the encroaching railway Huse or Bray is a recently renovated low building nearby, again with a paddock in front of it, at the T-junction at the East end of the village the only trace of Adresham is the terrace upon which it once stood, opposite the village school; there is a 1950s house on the site Fulscot is half a mile west of the village, and is still a self-contained manor farm community. The largest house in South Moreton is none of these, but is The Hall, very close to the Huse, and the last farm in the village. Much Victorian history of the village is recorded in The Rector's Book, handwritten around 1905 from memories stretching back to 1845, and now deposited in the Berkshire County Archives at Reading.