Heyford, Upper, or Heyford Warren, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Heyford, Upper, or Heyford Warren, a parish in Oxfordshire, on the river Cherwell, the Oxford Canal, and the Oxford and Birmingham branch of the G.W.R., near Heyford station on the G W B., 5½ miles WNW from Bicester. It has a post office, of the name of Upper Heyford, under Banbury; money order office. Lower Heyford; telegraph office, Steeple Aston. Acreage, 1628; population, 341. The manor belongs to New College, Oxford. Heyford House is an old seat of the Myrries. A tithe barn is here of the time of William of Wykeham. A fosse and a vallum, part of the original boundary between the Mercian and the West Saxon kingdoms, are in the E. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £300 with residence. Patron, New College, Oxford. The church, which was rebuilt with the exception of the tower in 1866, is a small building of stone. The tower is Perpendicular, and bears the arms of William of Wykeham. There is a Wesleyan chapel.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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Church Records

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Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Heyford, Upper, or Heyford Warren from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Heyford, Warren, or Upper (St. Mary))

Land and Property

A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Oxfordshire is available online

Newspapers and Periodicals

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• 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.