Upper Assendon, Oxfordshire
Historical Description
Assendon, Upper, a liberty in Pirton parish, Oxford, 4 miles NW of Henley-on-Thames. It has a post-office under Henley, which is the money order and telegraph office. Stonor Park, an ancient Elizabethan mansion, standing in a park of from two to three hundred acres, and The Warren, are chief residences here. There are also a Catholic chapel and school, and five almshouses.
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.