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Lyneham, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Lyneham, a hamlet and a township in the civil parish of Milton-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire, on the river Evenlode, 4¼ miles SW of Chipping Norton, and 2 N by W from Shipton station on the G.W.R. Post town, Chipping Norton; money order office, Milton-under-Wychwood; telegraph office, Shipton station. Acreage of township, 1943; population, 192. A schoolroom is here, and is used as a chapel of ease, and there is also a Methodist chapel.

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 
Civil parishShipton under Whichwood 
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.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Lyneham 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 Lyneham 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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