Headington Quarry, Oxfordshire
Historical Description
Headington Quarry is an ecclesiastical parish which was formed in 1850 out of part of the parish of Headington, with the formerly extra-parochial tract of Shotover Hill Place. The place called St Bartholomew's or Bartlemas, once an extra-parochial'leper-house and chapel, is now amalgamated with it. It has a post and money order office under Oxford; telegraph office, Headington. Population, 1307. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net yearly value, £131 in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford. The church is a building of stone in the Early English style, and is the work of Sir Gilbert Scott.
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
Maps
Online maps of Headington Quarry 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 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.