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Weston on the Green, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Weston-on-the-Green, a parish in Oxfordshire, 3 miles N by E of Islip station on the Bletchley and Oxford branch of the L. & N.W.R., and 4½ SW of Bicester. It has a post office under Bicester; money order and telegraph office, Bletchington. Acreage, 2295; population, 325. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The manor belongs to the Bertie family. The Manor House is a chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £143 with residence. The church is a plain oblong building of stone in the Classic style. There is a Wesleyan chapel.

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 parishWeston-on-the-Green St. Mary 
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

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Weston on the Green from the following:


Land and Property

A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Oxfordshire is available online


Maps

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Newspapers and Periodicals

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Visitations Heraldic

The Visitations of Oxfordshire, 1566, 1574 &1634 are available on the Heraldry page.