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Hornton, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Hornton, a parish, with a village, in Oxfordshire, adjacent to Warwickshire and under Edge Hill, 5 miles W by S from Cropredy station on the G.W.R., and 5½ NW of Banbury. It has a post office under Banbury; money order office, Tysoe; telegraph office, Wroxton. Acreage, 1422; population of the civil parish, 426; of the ecclesiastical, with Horley, 703. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Horley, in the diocese of Oxford; joint net value,, £449 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is partly of the 12th century, partly of the 13th, and is a building of stone in the Norman, Early English, and Decorated styles. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel and an endowed national school.

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 parishHornton St. John the Baptist 
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.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Hornton 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 Hornton 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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