Economic and Social History
The former Begbroke Hill Farm was owned by the Giffard and FitzHerbert families for nearly 500 years. It was built early in the 17th century for either Humphrey FitzHerbert (died 1616) or his son Robert (died 1632). It is now the site of the Oxford University Begbroke Science Park (which, despite the name, is accessible only from the neighbouring village of Yarnton and but is in the boundary of Begbroke parish).
Orchard House, next to St. Michael's parish church, also belonged to the FitzHerberts. More recently it was the home of science fiction author Brian Aldiss.
Begbroke Place was built in 1906. From 1940 it until 1984 the house was incorporated into the campus of St. Juliana's Convent School, an independent girls' school run by the sisters of the Servite Order.
Commuter homes were built in the village beginning in the 1930s, mainly on the east side of Woodstock Road.
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