Great and Little Bourton, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Bourton, Great and Little, a parish in Oxfordshire, 8 miles N of Banbury. It has a post office under Banbury, which is the money order office; telegraph office, Cropredy (R.S.), which is the station on the G.W.R. Acreage, 166a of land and 12 of water; population, 44.9. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net yearly value, £294,in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford. The church, an edifice of stone in the Early English and Decorated styles, was built in 1863, on the site of a church formerly connected with a friary, but latterly turned into cottages and a schoolhouse. There are Congregational and Wesleyan chapels.

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 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.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Great and Little Bourton from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Bourton, Great and Little)

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.