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Wendlebury, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Wendlebury, a parish in Oxfordshire, 2½ miles SW by S of Bicester station on the L. & N.W.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Bicester. Acreage, 1154; population, 203. The manor belongs to the Duke of Marlborough. Remains of a Roman camp are at Alchester. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; gross value, £146. Patron, Christchurch, Oxford. The church, a cruciform building of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, transepts, and an embattled western tower, was rebuilt with the exception of the tower in 1761.

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 parishWendlebury St. Giles 
HundredPloughley 
Poor Law unionBicester 

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 Wendlebury 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 Wendlebury 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.

DistrictCherwell
CountyOxfordshire
RegionSouth East
CountryEngland
Postal districtOX25
Post TownBicester

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