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Stonesfield, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Stonesfield, a parish, with a village, in Oxfordshire, on Akeman Street and the river Evenlode, 2½ miles NW of Handborough station on the Oxford and Worcester section of the G.W.R., and 3½ W of Woodstock. It has a post office under Woodstock; money order and telegraph office, Coombe. Acreage, 817; population, 577. There is a parish council consisting of six members. The manor belongs to the Duke of Marlborough, A fine Roman pavement, 35 feet by 60, was found in 1711, and the foundations of some Roman villas in 1779. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £133 with residence. Patron, the Duke of Marlborough. The church is a small but ancient building of stone in the Early English and Later styles. There are also Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.

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 parishStonesfield St. James 
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.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Stonesfield 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 Stonesfield 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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