Waterperry with Thomley [SEP] located in the administrative territorial entity
Waterperry with Thomley
Waterperry with Thomley is a civil parish in South Oxfordshire. It includes the village of Waterperry (Ordnance Survey grid reference SP626066) and the abandoned former village of Thomley (OS Grid ref. SP629091). Thomley and Wateperry were separate civil parishes in 1957. The current single civil parish was formed at some time thereafter, comprising 13.76km², having a population of 257 recorded in the United Kingdom Census 2011. The area is bisected by the M40 motorway, it is in the valley of the Thame and
Tipping, 2nd Baronet died in 1727 the estates were sold.
John Rudge, Member of Parliament for Evesham, bought Wheatfield, along with the Tipping estates of Worminghall in Buckinghamshire and Thomley near Waterperry. His purchases were funded by a bequest from his mother-in-law Susannah Letten, and when his son Edward Rudge died heirless in 1763 Wheatfield reverted to her heirs.
The Lettens sold Wheatfield in 1769 to Lord Charles Spencer, second son of Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough. One 19th century heir,