Ewelme
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Ewelme is a village and civil parish in the Chiltern Hills in South Oxfordshire, 2.5 miles northeast of the market town of Wallingford. The 2011 census recorded the parish's population as 1,048. To th
Ewelme village seen from the south
Tomb of Alice, Duchess of Suffolk.
Ewelme almshouses
The parish church with the almshouses on the right
Alice Chaucer, Duchess of Suffolk was an English noblewoman and patron of the arts, granddaughter of the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer. Married three times, she eventually became a Lady of the Most No
Ewelme
…the Hundred of Benson in 1086, later renamed the Hundred of Ewelme. William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, Lord Chamberlain of England, and his wife Alice established the school and cloistered almshouses from their profits from the East Anglian wool trade in 1437, and endowed them with estates in Oxfordshire…
Alice de la Pole, detail from her effigy in Ewelme Church, Oxfordshire
Monument (north side) to Alice Chaucer, Duchess of Suffolk, St Mary's Church, Ewelme