Eynsham Hall, Witney, England

The following is from the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest.

A country house surrounded by an 18th-century park and mid-19th/20th-century pleasure grounds. Robert Marnock was involved in the planting of exotics in the 1860s; Owen Jones (1870s) and then Ernest George (1900s) were responsible for the terraced gardens around the house.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

The roughly 330 hectare Eynsham Hall park lies between the villages of Freeland and North Leigh, bounded to the north-west by the A4095 Witney to Woodstock road, to the west by a track called Wood Lane, and on the other sides by agricultural land. The setting is largely agricultural and rural, with several other substantial landscape parks lying close by, including Blenheim, Cornbury and Ditchley (there are descriptions of all these sites in the Register).

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

N Pevsner and J Sherwood, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire (1974), p 602

Victoria History of the County of Oxfordshire 12, (1990), pp 121-3

Maps

Estate map, 1769 (private collection)

Wickham-Steed MS map, 1780

R Davis, A New Map of the County of Oxford ..., 1797

Map accompanying sale catalogue, 1862

OS 1" to 1 mile: 1st edition published 1833

OS 6" to 1 mile: 1st edition published 1881-2; 2nd edition published 1900

OS 25" to 1 mile: 1st edition published 1880
 

Description written: May 1999

Edited: January 2000