Dorchester Oxfordshire Vintage Print Picture Colour 1958 EVIC#55

Description: Dorchester Oxfordshire 1958 Vintage Print A colour print, rescued from a disbound book about English Villages from 1958, with unrelated text on the reverse. Suitable for framing, the average picture size is approx 9.5" x 7" or 24cm x 17.5cm, edge to edge. This is a vintage print from 1958 not a modern copy and can show signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print. Please view the scan as it forms part of the description. The date given of 1958 is the printing date, the actual date of creation can be earlier. All pictures will be sent bagged and in a board backed envelope for protection in transit. Please note: That while every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in brightness or contrast to the actual item. The text below is for information only and is from the opposite separate page it cannot be supplied with the print - All spelling subject to the OCR program used Dorchester, OxfordshireDorchester on Thames, in Oxfordshire, has come down in the world from the status of town to village. It was one of the lesser walled towns or market-towns of Roman Britain, on the now almost obliterated Roman road which ran north and south to the Roman towns of Aichester and Silchester. The place a shrunken Dorchester now occupies was important (so the recent, discovery of ritual circles near by has suggested) long before either the British or Romans came across the Channel; which is not surprising, for the alluvial gravels round Dorchester gave settlers a wide, well-drained area for grazing and crops.Something of this long and unusual continuity is preserved in the special amber of the name. Its British name apparently was "Dorcic", which may have meant the "Bright Place", the "Splendid Place"; to which the English tacked on the familiar ceaster, the word they borrowed from the Latin castra, and then gave to the walled Roman towns whose ruins they observed with wonder in the early days of the English settlement.Dorchester became important again for the English. It was the first centre of Wessex, at least of the West Saxons. When these West Saxons deserted paganism for Christianity, St. Birinus, who converted them, made Dorchester the seat of his ministrations and his bishopric, though after his death the Wessex see was transferred to Winchester.For all its one long street, heavy with Oxford traffic, Dorchester "feels" larger than it is—a fact partly explained by the big Dorchester Abbey, the parish church which is nearly all that remains of the Priory of Augustinian Canons, founded here in 1140 in continuance of Dorchester's pre-Christian and then Christian traditions of sanctity.

Price: 3.49 GBP

Location: Dereham

End Time: 2025-01-23T13:03:48.000Z

Shipping Cost: 20.09 GBP