Day 41

What a beautiful day, took a walk to this church, not accessible by road.

St Giles's Church, Hampton Gay, was built between 1767-1772 on the foundations of an earlier church. The name Gay originates from the de Gay family, former Lords of the Manor there in the 12th century.

During Elizabethan times in 1596 the enclosure of lands around Hampton Gay led most of the village men to revolt. But when the call to arms came only ten of them turned up with pikes and swords on Enslow Hill in Bletchingdon. Five men from Hampton Gay were arrested and sent to London where one was sentenced to be 'hanged and quartered'.