Ocle Pychard
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Ocle Pychard is a hamlet and parish near Burley Gate, in Herefordshire, England, {{convert|3.25|mi}} northwest of Stoke Edith, {{convert|6|mi}} southwest from Bromyard, and about {{convert|7|mi}} northeast of Hereford. The parish of Stretton Grandison neighbours Ocle Pychard to the east, while that of Westhide is to the south. Once a larger settlement, its population was 187 in 1801, 236 in 1831, 224 in 1832, and 299 in 1861.{{sfn|Duncumb|Cooke|Watkins|Matthews|1897|pp=135, 148}}{{sfn|Bell|1835|p=288}}{{sfn|Cobbett|1832|p=149}}
History
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At the time of the Domesday Book Ocle Pychard was in the Hundred of Tornelaus, and contained 35 households. The population included 9 villagers, 11 smallholders (middle level of serf below a villager), and 13 slaves, with its assets listed as an area of land under plough defined by four lord's and ten men's plough teams. Roger de Lacy, the manor's co-lord with the Bishop of Hereford, was the tenant-in-chief to king William I.{{sfn|Fleming|2003|p=166}}[https://opendomesday.org/place/SO5946/ocle-pychard/ "Ocle [Pychard]"], Open Domesday, University of Hull, Domesdaymap.co.uk. Retrieved 17 March 2020
Ocle Pichard, a section of Ocle, derived its additional name from a family which arrived soon after the Norman Conquest. Roger Pichard was mentioned in the Book of Fees during the reign of Henry III. Miles Picard, knight of the shire, was High Sheriff of Herefordshire in 1300–06. A Roger Picard, probably his son, served in the same capacity during the period of 1318-27, while the vicar John Pichard served Ocle Pychard's parish in 1446.{{sfn|Cleveland|1889|p=7}}
George Carpenter, 1st Baron Carpenter (1657–1732) was born at Livers Ocle in Ocle Pychard into a family which had owned property in the area for over 400 years.{{cite book|last1=Watkins|first1=C.|last2=Cowell|first2=Ben|title=Uvedale Price (1747-1829): Decoding the Picturesque|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9FK1kzJCIhEC&pg=PA36|year=2012|publisher=Boydell Press|isbn=978-1-84383-708-4|page=36}} Its population in 1861 was 299; at the time the manor belonged to J. L. Harrison.{{cite web|url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1894|title=Ocle Pychard|publisher=Visionofbritain.org.uk|access-date=24 January 2014}} It later fell into the hands of the Cresswell family.
Landmarks
File:Sheep Grazing Near Ocle Pychard Church - geograph.org.uk - 1355967.jpg
The Church of St James the Great dates to the 14th century and became a Grade II* listed building on 9 June 1967. Built of "coursed local sandstone rubble with freestone dressings", the tower is believed to date to the early 19th century with a spire late added by William Chick between 1869 and 1872.{{cite web|url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-410112-church-of-st-james-the-great-ocle-pychar|title=Church of St James the Great, Ocle Pychard|publisher=British Listed Buildings|access-date=25 January 2015}} The east window is Perpendicular architecture in style and the spire is of copper covering.{{sfn|Pevsner|1963|p=364}} Ocle Priory was in the vicinity. The Hereford and Gloucester Canal traverses the southern part of the parish. A primary school was located in Ocle Pychard in 1967, but it was replaced.{{cite book|author=Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons|title=Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).: House of Commons Official report|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a_0tAAAAYAAJ|year=1967|publisher=H.M. Stationery Office}}
References
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Bibliography
- {{cite book|last=Bell|first=James|title=A new and comprehensive gazetteer of England and Wales, illustr. by a series of maps. 4 vols. [in 2].|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WwoHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA288|edition=Public domain|year=1835}}
- {{cite book|last=Cleveland|first=Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina Powlett, Duchess of|title=The Battle Abbey Roll: With Some Account of the Norman Lineages|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FF8JAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA7|edition=Public domain|year=1889|publisher=J. Murray}}
- {{cite book|last=Cobbett|first=William|title=A geographical dictionary of England and Wales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uc0uAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA149|year=1832|publisher=Wm. Cobbett}}
- {{cite book|last1=Duncumb|first1=John|last2=Cooke|first2=William|last3=Watkins|first3=Morgan George|last4=Matthews|first4=John Hobson|title=Collections Towards the History and Antiquities of the County of Hereford: . Hundred of Grimsworth|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yv7lAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA135|edition=Public domain|year=1897|publisher=E. G. Wright}}
- {{cite book|last=Fleming|first=Robin|title=Domesday Book and the Law: Society and Legal Custom in Early Medieval England|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gBm2eQvZlN4C&pg=PA166|date=18 December 2003|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-52846-7}}
- {{cite book|last=Pevsner|first=Nikolaus|title=Herefordshire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B5ANBpiLHl0C&pg=PA364|year=1963|publisher=Penguin Books|isbn=978-0-14-071025-0}}
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