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Lewknor, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Lewknor, a village and a parish in Oxfordshire. The village stands near Icknield Street, under the Chilterns, 2¼ miles NE of Watlington, and 1 mile W of Aston Rowant station on the G.W.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Tetsworth. Acreage of the civil parish, 2667; population, 428; of the ecclesiastical, 451. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £214 with residence. Patrons, All Souls' College, Oxford. The church, a fine building of flint with dressings of stone, is of various dates, having a Late Norman nave and chancel arch, with a mortuary chapel, a Decorated English chancel and S aisle, and a square tower of Perpendicular date; it contains a curious rich Norman font, a brass of 1380, some very interesting monuments, both ancient and modern, and eight stained windows. The hamlets of Postcombe, Stutridge, and Well-ground are included in the ecclesiastical parish, but for civil purposes the two latter are attached to Stokenchurch. Lewknor has a parish council of five members.

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 parishLewknor St. Margaret 
HundredDesborough 
Poor Law unionWycombe 

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 Lewknor 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 Lewknor 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.

DistrictSouth Oxfordshire
CountyOxfordshire
RegionSouth East
CountryEngland
Postal districtOX49
Post TownWatlington

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