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941
Chronicles of Abingdon Abbey
Called 'Gifteleia' -
1086
Domesday Book - Givetelei
The Norman Lord holding the manor from the time of William I was Earl Aubrey. At Domesday the manor at Givetelei is recorded as having amongst other assets, a fishery and two acres of coppice. The manor is recorded as comprising 14 villeins (tenants holding their land in return for agricultural labour) 6 borders (smallholders who had cleared woodland or waste ground at the edge of the settlement) and 5 serfs (unfree peasants obliged to work for the local lord). -
Period: 1100 to 1200
Mill Built
Iffley Mill built -
1170
Church built
Robert St. Remy builds church in Iffley -
1279
Hundred Rolls
For the whole manor, about 80 families: about 10 freemen, about 36 villeins, and 30 or more cottagers. For the village itself there seem to be three or four freemen's families and 25 or more unfree households. -
1290
Merton College Records
Called 'Iftele' and 'Yeftley' -
1349
Plague
The black death renders many properties vacant -
1393
Manor becomes Donnington Hospital
Sir Richard Abberbury was licensed to found the Hospital of Donnington, on his manor there, and to endow it with Iffley manor. From then on the manor belonged to the hospital -
1475
Vicarage Ordained
Iffley Vicarage ordained, to help neglectful priests attend their duties -
1514
Charles Brandon granted Donnington Manor
Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, granted Donnington Manor -
1517
Domesday of Inclosures
Called 'Yeftley' -
1535
Donnington Manor sold to King
Charles Brandon sells Donnington Manor to the King -
Period: 1535 to
David Lewis leased Iffley
David Lewis, first principal of Jesus College, leased Iffley, then passed to his son John Lewis -
1543
Lincoln College Accounts
Called 'Ifley', 'Iffley' and 'Iflie' -
Hospital dissolved
Hospital found 'have no useful purpose' and was dissolved. -
Lock - Built
Iffley Lock Built -
Civil War
Called 'Iffley' -
Civil War - Siege of Oxford
Parliamentarian troops are billeted in the village during the siege of Oxford -
Lock - Rebuilt
Lock rebuilt -
Lock - Malcontents stop work
Malcontents force the Lock and stop work for a week -
Swing Rioters
Special Constables were enrolled to stop the Swing Rioters, but an attack did not appear -
Parish School Founded
Parish school founded by the vicar -
Infant School Founded
Infant School founded by Vicar -
School Closed for One Week
School Closed for a week due to smallpox -
Boys and Girls school amalgamated
Boys and Girls school amalgamated due to unsatisfactory teaching -
Mill burns down
Iffley Mill burns down -
Lock - Rebuilt
Iffley Lock rebuilt due to flooding and opened by Lord Desborough, the then chairman of the Thames conservancy -
Parish School Closed
Parish School closed -
Parish Hall
Parish school becomes Parish Hall
