History of the Manor House

Tim Frost has provided the following document with the history of the Manor house in Ogbourne St George. The research was commissioned by Oliver Frost in 1938. It provides a terrific insight into the history of the house and local area.

Manor House History.pdf

The man who never was…

Here is an extract from the “Man who never was”. It details a second world war deception in 1943 intended to mislead the Germans about the Allied invasion plans in the Mediterranean. The Manor house featured in the deception…

Extract from the man who never was.pdf

Comments

• Isobel Carter

  Dec 15, 2011 at 9:20 am

Hello

I wonder does anyone have an explanation for the meaning of Og - is it a Celtic name relating to the river in the area as is the River Avon and Nadder? Perhaps someone has some ideas.

• KeithM

  Jan 16, 2012 at 11:38 pm

Bryn Walters (Director of the The Association for Roman Archaeology) has said to me that “Og” is a Celtic Name, meaning “Young” I think

• Tim Frost

  Jan 24, 2012 at 2:31 pm

Certainly Og may be a Celtic name, but The Place-Names of Wiltshire (English Place-Names Society, 1939) is very confident that the name of the river is a back-formation from Ogbourne. Early spellings of the village name in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries are Oceburnan, Ocheburn, Ocheburna magna et parva, and these indicate a likely original meaning of “Oc(c)a’s stream”. The name Ocea is on record from Wiltshire in the ninth century.

Later spellings include Okkeburn (1316), Okeburn Major (1289), Okeborne Seynt George (1462), Auqueborne (1390), Oggeburn St George (1449), Oakeborne (1669).

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