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Waterperry, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Waterperry, a parish, with Thornley hamlet, in Oxfordshire, 2 miles ENE of Wheatley station on the Maidenhead and Oxford branch of the G.W.R., and 7½ E of Oxford. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Wheatley, under Oxford. Acreage, 1936; population of civil parish, 164; of ecclesiastical, 182. The ecclesiastical parish includes Thornley township. The manor, with Waterperry House, a handsome mansion in the Classic style standing in a park of about 40 acres, and all the land, belongs to the Henley family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £103 with residence. The church, which stands within the park of Waterperry House, is an ancient and picturesque building in mixed styles, consisting of chancel, nave, S aisle, and an ivy-clad western tower of wood. It has some very ancient stained glass, an effigy of a knight in plate armour, dating from the early part of the 15th century, and some ancient brasses.

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 parishWaterperry St. Mary 
HundredBullingdon 
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.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Waterperry 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 Waterperry 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 districtOX33
Post TownOxford

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