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Alkerton, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Alkerton or Awkerington, a village and a parish in Oxfordshire, on the verge of the county, 6 miles WNW of Banbury railway station. Post town, Banbury; money order office, Tysoe; telegraph office, Wroxton. Acreage of parish, 742; population, 119. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net yearly value, £120 with residence, in the gift of the Earl of Jersey. The church contains, in its external courses, some curious figures of acolytes censing, and was completely restored in 1890. The learned but unfortunate mathematician, Thomas Lydiat, who lived 1572-1646, was a native of the parish, and for some time its rector.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyOxfordshire 
Ecclesiastical parishAlkerton St. Michael 
HundredBloxham 
Poor Law unionBanbury 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Church Records

Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Oxfordshire Family History Society and Oxfordshire History Centre, have images of the Parish Registers for Oxfordshire online.


Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Alkerton from the following:


Land and Property

A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Oxfordshire is available online


Maps

Online maps of Alkerton are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Oxfordshire newspapers online:


Visitations Heraldic

The Visitations of Oxfordshire, 1566, 1574 &1634 are available on the Heraldry page.

DistrictCherwell
CountyOxfordshire
RegionSouth East
CountryEngland
Postal districtOX15
Post TownBanbury

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