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Osney or Oseney, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Osney or Oseney, an islet in the S border of Oxfordshire, in the river Isis, half a mile W of Oxford. An Augustinian priory was founded here in 1074 by Robert D'Oyley, was made the seat of a bishopric in 1542, and has left some vestiges. The seat of the bishopric was early translated from it to St Frideswide's, in the city of Oxford. See OXFORD.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

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.


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Oxfordshire newspapers online: