ANTIQUITIES FOUND AT WOODPERRY, OXON.
SITE OF THE ANCIENT CHURCH, WOODPERRY.
Woodperry[1], a hamlet or tithing of the parish of Stanton St. John, in the neighbourhood of Oxford, appears, by the numerous antiquities of many periods there discovered, to have been a place of popular resort by successive races from the earliest times, until the church and village, as traditionally reported, were totally destroyed by a conflagration. The neighbourhood abounds with Roman remains, amongst which may be included the newly discovered villa at Wheatley, described in No. 8 of the Journal; and at the distance of about half a mile ran the line of the great road between Eboracum and Clausentum, given in the 18th iter of Ricardus Corinensis, a portion of which has been ably illustrated by Mr. Hussey[2]; but there was no suspicion of any thing Roman
- ↑ This name is so spelt in conformity with the modern usage and pronunciation; but the earlier forms give Wodehury, pire, pery, &c., with one R, which is the case also with Waterpery, a village not far distant.
- ↑ An account of the Roman road from Allchester to Dorchester, by the Rev. Robert Hussey, B.D., 8vo. 1841, Oxford, for the Ashmolean Society.
