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Wychwood, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Wychwood, a parish in Oxfordshire, which was formed out of the old forest of Wychwood. It is 2 miles from Charlbury station on the Oxford and Worcester section of the G.W.R., and about 4 NW by N from Witney. Post town and money order office, Witney; telegraph office, Ascott railway station. Acreage, 3782; population 212. The manor, with much of the land, belongs to the Crown. For ecclesiastical purposes the parish is annexed to Seafield.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

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.


Land and Property

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


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.