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MEDLEY, anciently MEDELEY, a place in Oxfordshire; on the river Thames, 2 miles NNW of Oxford. 1t had a country seat of the priors of Oseny. It was the place where Henry II. ment Rosamond, when a nun at. Godstone; and it figures, as follows, in the poems of Withers,-
In summer-time to Medley
My love and I would go;
The boatmen there stood ready
My love and me to row.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a place" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
Administrative units: | Oxfordshire AncC |
Place: | Medley |
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