Oxshot, Ockshot or Oakshade, Surrey

Historical Description

Oxshot, Ockshot or Oakshade, a hamlet in Stoke D'Abernon parish, Surrey, with a station on the L. & S.W.R., 17 miles from London, and 3 NNW of Leatherhead. It has a post office, of the name of Oxshot, under Leatherhead; money order and telegraph office, Leatherhead. There is a school-room licensed for public worship.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Church Records

Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Surrey History Centre, have images of the Parish Registers for Surrey online.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Oxshot, Ockshot or Oakshade from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Oxshot)

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Surrey is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Oxshot, Ockshot or Oakshade are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Surrey papers online:

• Surrey Mirror
• Dorking and Leatherhead Advertiser
• Surrey Advertiser

Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of Surrey, 1662-1668 is available on the Heraldry page.