Chilswell

Chilswell is a small settlement in the parish of Cumnor, Oxfordshire.

It lies between the village of South Hinksey and Boars Hill.

The name is of Old English origin, and appears to mean 'the stream of a man called Cifel'.

[1] An older form of the name is Childsworth, and the place is mentioned by that name in the poem Thyrsis by Matthew Arnold.

[3] Chilswell House, on the edge of Boars Hill, was built in 1907 to be the home of the poet Robert Bridges,[4] the writer Monica Bridges and their three children.