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Cornwell, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Cornwell, a village and a parish in Oxfordshire, 2½ miles W from Chipping-Norton station on the G.W.R. Post town, Chipping-Norton; money order and telegraph office, Chipping-Norton. Acreage, 849; population, 86. Cornwell House is a seat of the Penyston family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is ancient.

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 
HundredChadlington 
Poor Law unionChipping-Norton 

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 Cornwell 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 Cornwell 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.

DistrictWest Oxfordshire
CountyOxfordshire
RegionSouth East
CountryEngland
Postal districtOX7
Post TownChipping Norton

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