Eynsham, Oxfordshire - St. Leonards Church - art postcard c.1970s

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^{Eynsham /ˈɛnʃəm/ is a village and civil parish about 5 miles (8 km) north-west of Oxford and east of Witney, in Oxfordshire, England. The 2011 Census recorded the parish population as 4,648.[1]}

^{Eynsham grew up near the historically important ford of Swinford on the River Thames flood plain. Excavations have shown that the site was used in the Bronze Age for a rectilinear enclosure on the edge of the gravel terrace.[citation needed]}

^{The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records Eynsham as Egonesham and describes it as one of four towns that the Saxons captured from the Britons in AD 571. Evidence has been found of 6th and 7th century Saxon buildings[2] at New Wintles Farm,[3] about 3⁄₄ mile (1.2 km) north of the present parish church. There is some evidence that Eynsham had an early minster, probably founded in the 7th or 8th centuries.[2] The name is recorded in AD 864 (in the dative) as Egenes homme = "Ægen's enclosure or river-meadow".}

^{In 1005 Aethelmar, kinsman of Aethelred II founded a Benedictine abbey on the site of the earlier minster. The first abbot was Ælfric of Eynsham, a prolific writer in Old English.[4] By the medieval period Eynsham Abbey was one of the largest in the area, but it was dissolved at the Reformation in 1538 and only a few remains are still visible.}

^{By 1302 Eynsham had a wharf handling freight including hay, straw, malt, grain and timber. It was beside the Talbot Inn on Wharf Stream, a tributary of the Thames. By 1790 the newly completed Oxford Canal was trading with Eynsham Wharf, primarily to sell coal from the Midlands.[5] From 1792 the Oxford Canal employed a wharfinger at Eynsham[6]and in 1800 it bought the lease of the wharf.[7] The Oxford Canal consolidated its position at Eynsham by buying the Talbot Inn in 1845 and the freehold of Eynsham Wharf in 1849,[8] perhaps in response to the Railway Mania that was beginning to take traffic from canals and navigations.}

^{Eynsham Lock is on the Thames just above the confluence with Wharf Stream. This was the last flash lock on the Thames, and was not rebuilt as a pound lock until 1928.}