Milton under Wychwood, Oxfordshire
Historical Description
Milton-under-Wychwood, a village, a township, and a parish in Oxfordshire. The village stands 1½ mile WSW of Shipton station on the Oxford and Worcester section of the G.W.R., 3 miles E of the boundary with Gloucestershire, 4 N by E of Burford, and 7 SW from Chipping Norton. It is a considerable place, and has a post and money order office under Chipping Norton; telegraph offioe, Shipton (E.S.) The township comprises 2080 acres; population, 878; of the ecclesiastical parish, with Broern and Lyneham, 1128. There is a parish council consisting of eight members. The manor belongs to the Earl of Ducie. There are large stone quarries here, and it is said that stone from them was used in the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral, London. The church, erected in 1854 from designs by the late G. E. Street, R.A., is a building of stone in the Geometrical Decorated style, and there are Baptist, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan chapels. On account of its salubrity Milton has become a fashionable resort for summer visitors. BRUERN and LYNEHAM are noticed separately.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Oxfordshire | |
Civil parish | Shipton under Whichwood | |
Hundred | Chadlington | |
Poor Law union | Chipping-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 Milton under Wychwood 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 Milton under Wychwood are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Oxfordshire newspapers online:
- Oxford Journal
- Banbury Advertiser
- Banbury Guardian
- Oxford University and City Herald
- Oxford Chronicle and Reading Gazette
- Faringdon Advertiser and Vale of the White Horse Gazette
- Oxford Times
- Banbury Beacon
- Ossett Observer
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitations of Oxfordshire, 1566, 1574 &1634 are available on the Heraldry page.