Great Chesterton, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Chesterton, Great, a parish in Oxfordshire, on Akeman Street and a branch of the river Bay, 1¼ mile WSW of Bicester, which is the post town. Acreage, 2527; population, 384. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £120. Patron, New College, Oxford. The church is Transition Norman in the nave, mixed Decorated and Perpendicular English in the chancel, and has a Decorated tower, and three fine Early English sedilia. Chesterton is a fine mansion of stone erected in 1889-90.

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:

• 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.