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Heythrop, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Heythrop, a parish in Oxfordshire, on a headstream of the river Glyme, 3 miles E by N from Chipping Norton station on the G.W.R. It includes the hamlet of Dunthrop, and its post town is Chipping Norton; money order and telegraph office, Enstone. Acreage, 1763; population, 254. Heythrop House, formerly the seat of the Earl of Shrewsbury, was destroyed by fire in 1831, but has been replaced by a fine modern mansion of stone in the Italian style. The house is surrounded by pleasure gardens and a well-wooded park of 300 acres, and is the seat of the Brassey family, who are lords of the manor and sole landowners. A Carthusian monastery was founded here in 1222 by William Longespee, and removed to Hinton in Somerset. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net value,, £241. The church, built in 1879-80, at the sole cost of Mr A. Brassey, is an edifice of stone in the Geometrical style.

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 parishHeythorp St. Nicholas 
HundredWootton 
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 Heythrop 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 Heythrop 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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