Cumnor
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Cumnor is a village and civil parish 3½ miles west of the centre of Oxford, England. The village is about 2 miles south-west of Botley and its centre is west of the A420 road to Swindon. The parish in
St. Michael's parish church
The Bear and Ragged Staff public house.
An Oxford Bus Company bus in Oxford Road, Cumnor
Cumnoria prestwichii was discovered near Cumnor
Amy Robsart
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Amy, Lady Dudley was the first wife of Robert Dudley, who later became Earl of Leicester, favourite of Elizabeth I of England. In the variable spelling of the day, her name also was spelled as Amye Du
Cumnor
…Hinksey and Wootton and was one of several in the Hundred of Hormer. In 1560 Cumnor Place saw the accidental death and rumoured suicide or murder of Amy Robsart, ailing wife of Lord Robert Dudley. The house was pulled down in 1810, because, it was said, her ghost gave locals trouble. In reality the house had…
Fantasy portrait by T.F. Dicksee, 19th century
Amy and her maid, watercolour by George Cattermole, 1852
Leicester and Amy Robsart at Cumnor Hall (1866) by Edward Matthew Ward. Fantasy portrait after Walter Scott's novel Kenilworth
Fantasy Portrait. Amy Robsart, 1864, by William Frederick Yeames, Wolverhampton Art Gallery