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Shifford, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Shifford, a township and a chapelry in Bampton civil parish and Bampton Aston ecclesiastical parish, Oxfordshire, on the river Isis, 5½ miles SSE of Witney station on the G.W.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Bampton, under Faringdon. Acreage, 775; population, 31. The manor belongs to the Harcourt family. A great council was held, here by Alfred. The living is annexed to Bampton Aston. The church, which was erected in 1863, is a small Gothic building consisting of chancel and nave only.

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 parishBampton 
HundredBampton 
Poor Law unionWitney 

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 Shifford 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 Shifford 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 districtOX29
Post TownWitney

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