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North Aston, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Aston, North, a parish and a village in Oxfordshire, on the river Cherwell, adjacent to the Oxford Canal, 1 mile W of Somerton station on the G.W.R., and 2 miles SSE of Deddington, which is the post town and the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1288; population, 253. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; value, £250. The church, an ancient edifice of stone in mixed styles, was restored in 1866-67. North Aston Hall is a chief residence.

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 parishNorth Aston St. Mary 
HundredWootton 
Poor Law unionWoodstock 

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.


Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for North Aston 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 North Aston 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 districtOX25
Post TownBicester

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