Dunsden and Eye, Oxfordshire
Historical Description
Dunsden and Eye, a liberty in Oxfordshire, belonging to the parish of Sonning in Berks, and including Sonning Eye, -Sonning Common, and a portion of Binfield Heath. Dunsden was made a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1876. It is about 3¼ miles NE from Reading. Post town, Reading; money order and telegraph office, Sonning. . Acreage, 3151; population of the civil parish, 942; of the ecclesiastical, 578. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net yearly value, £370 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Sonning. The church, erected in 1842, is a building of grey brick in the Early English style.
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.
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:
- 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
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitations of Oxfordshire, 1566, 1574 &1634 are available on the Heraldry page.