Tilgarsley was a village in

Oxfordshire Oxfordshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the north west of South East England. It is a mainly rural county, with its largest settlement being the city of Oxford. The county is a centre of research and development, primarily ...

. It was recorded as existing in 1279 and was abandoned before 1350 as a result of the

Black Death The Black Death (also known as the Pestilence, the Great Mortality or the Plague) was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Western Eurasia and North Africa from 1346 to 1353. It is the most fatal pandemic recorded in human history, causi ...

. It is thought to be sited on what is now Bowles Farm, north west of

Eynsham Eynsham is an English village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in Oxfordshire, about north-west of Oxford and east of Witney. The United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 Census recorded a parish population of 4,648. It was estimated at 5,0 ...

.Eynsham: Tilgarsley
in ''A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 12: Wootton Hundred (South) including Woodstock'' (1990), pp. 115-116.

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Eynsham: Tilgarsley
in ''A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 12''
Black Death: The Effect of the Plague
- BBC History Deserted medieval villages in Oxfordshire {{Oxfordshire-geo-stub