Blandford Park, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Blandford Park, called also Cornbury Park, the property of Lord Churchill, in Oxfordshire, adjacent to the G.W.R., 1 mile S from Charlbury station, and 6 miles WNW of Woodstock. It belonged to the first Lord Clarendon. The Earl of Leicester, the favourite of Queen Elizabeth, died at it in 1588.

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.

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Oxfordshire newspapers online:

• Oxford Journal
• Banbury Advertiser
• Banbury Guardian
• Oxford University and City Herald
• Oxford Chronicle and Reading Gazette
• Faringdon Advertiser and Vale of the White Horse Gazette
• Oxford Times
• Banbury Beacon
• Ossett Observer