Filkins is a small village set amidst the open hills almost equidistant between Lechlade on Thames, Oxon, and Burford, Oxon. These days it has practically merged with Broughton Poggs. It lies close to the A361 and the villages of Kencot, Oxon, and Broadwell, Oxon.
Enclosure took place in 1776 (VCH, Broadwell & Filkins).
The Filkins Hall estate was built up by the Thomas Edwards (- c. 1743), a Bristol lawyer, and Alexander READY aka COLSTON (-1775), his son-in-law. The association with the COLSTON family continued into the 19th C, by the early 20th C Flikins Hall was in ruins. The present main house is a 20th C creation.
One Richard CARPENTER (1715, Filkins,-) married a Mary TASH, who was probably linked to those in Burford, Oxon.
In 1679 one Mercy GODFREY recieved land in Filkins in the Will of her father Henry GODFREY. Until 1776 Home (or Grove) Farm was farmed by John GODFREY, who also owned the Holwell Rectory Estate at Holwell, Oxon (VCH, Broadwell & Filkins).
In 1681 the marriage of John MONK of Black Bourton, Oxon, gives his father as one Thomas MONK of Filkins, wheelright. In the 18th C there was a MONK family of wheelwrights in Burford, Oxon.
Alexander READY of Fairford, Oxon, owned the manor of Coln Rogers, Gloucs, in 1727. By 1751 he was being designate 'of Filkins' and then he changed his name to COLSTON in 1755 by act of parliament. His son, the Rev Alexander COLSTON (1744-), was rector of Broadwell and Hanbury (Clergy of the Church of England Database), and resided at Filkins Hall.
Local freeholders, the wealthiest of which was James PURBRICK. By 1776 he had extensive lands and a homestead on the village street (VCH, Broadwell & Filkins).
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