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Crux Easton

Village and parish in Hampshire, England

Field	Value
official_name	Crux Easton
civil_parish	Ashmansworth
country	England
region	South East England
coordinates
shire_district	Basingstoke and Deane
shire_county	Hampshire
hide_services	Yes
static_image	Crux Easton - Church Of St. Michael and All Angels - geograph.org.uk - 1772284.jpg
static_image_caption	St Michael and All Angels' parish church

Crux Easton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Ashmansworth, in the Basingstoke and Deane district of Hampshire, England, about 7 mi south of Newbury, Berkshire. In 1931, the parish had a population of 63.

History

The Church of England parish church of St Michael and All Angels was built in 1775, restored in 1894 and is a Grade II* listed building.

In 1870 official records showed that Crux Easton parish covered 1099 acre, had a population of 76, and had 17 houses.

There is a wind engine at Crux Easton that was made by John Wallis Titt in about 1892.

During the Second World War, the British Union of Fascists leader Sir Oswald Mosley bought Crux Easton House, where he and his wife Diana were placed under house arrest in 1944.

Geoffrey de Havilland's father was vicar of Crux Easton.

On 1 April 1932 the parish was abolished and merged with Ashmansworth.

Thomas Croc

A grant [1216-1272] of corn was made by Thomas Croc [Croch](dead by 1230) to the Canons of the Church of Saint John the Baptist, Sandleford of three quarters de meliori frumento [the better corn] annually in his town and manor of Estun. Witnesses: Sir Henry de Wodecote [Woodcott ], John Lanceleuee, Robert Lord de Vrleston, William de Edmundestrop, Richard de Quercu, Bartholomew Croc, Vrlestun, son of Ranuld de Vndecote and Richard Croc.

References

"Population statistics Crux Easton AP/CP through time". [[A Vision of Britain through Time]].
{{NHLE. (19 May 1966)
{{NHLE. (17 June 1991)
Joseph Anthony Amato, ''Rethinking Home: a Case for Writing Local History'' (2002), p. 390
"Relationships and changes Crux Easton AP/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time.
''A History of the County of Hampshire'': Volume 4, Victoria County History, London, 1911.
SGC XV.54.19, (assumed by them there in error to be [[Aston Rowant]], Oxfordshire).

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