Highmoor or Highmore, Oxfordshire
Historical Description
Highmoor or Highmore, an ecclesiastical parish formed in 1860 from the civil parishes of Bix and Rotherfield Greys, Oxfordshire, under the Chiltern Hills, 4½ miles WNW from Henley-on-Thames station on the G.W.R. It has a post office, of the name of Highmore Cross, under Henley-on-Thames; money order office, Nettlebed; telegraph office, Stoke Row. The area is included in the parish of Rotherfield Greys; population, 270. Highmoor Hall is a fine mansion standing in beautiful grounds. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £75, in the gift of the Rector of Rotherfield Greys. The church is a small and modern building of stone and flint 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.