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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.

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 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:


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.

CountyOxfordshire

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