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South Weston, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Weston, South, a village and a parish in Oxfordshire, 3½ miles NE from Watlington station on the G.W.R., and 5¼ S from Thame. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Tetsworth. Acreage, 485; population of the civil parish, 93; of the ecclesiastical, with Adwell, 161. The manor belongs to the Birch-Reynardson family. The living is a rectory, united with Adwell, in the diocese of Oxford; joint net value, £200 with residence. The church is a building of flint, consisting of chancel, nave, S porch, and central bell-cote.

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 parishSouth Weston St. Lawrence 
HundredPirton 
Poor Law unionThame 

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 South Weston 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 South Weston 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.

DistrictSouth Oxfordshire
CountyOxfordshire
RegionSouth East
CountryEngland
Postal districtOX9
Post TownThame

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