Oxton, Nottinghamshire
Historical Description
Oxton, a village and a parish in Notts. The village stands in Sherwood Forest, near Dover beck, 4½ miles NW of Lowdham railway station, and 5 WSW of Southwell, and has a post office under Southwell; money order office, Epperstone; telegraph office, Southwell. The parish comprises 3618 acres; population, 439. The manor, with Oxton Hall, belongs to the Sherbrooke family. There are two Roman camps and three barrows, one of which, 53 feet in diameter, was opened in 1789. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; net value, £258 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is an old stone building in the Early Decorated style, with a low tower, and contains a stone effigy of a female. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, and a Church of England endowed school with £16 a year, rebuilt in 1870. The parish is principally agricultural.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Nottinghamshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Oxton St. Peter | |
Poor Law union | Southwell | |
Wapentake | Thurgarton |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Oxton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Oxton (St. Peter))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Nottinghamshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Oxton 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 Nottinghamshire newspapers online:
- Nottingham Evening Post
- Nottinghamshire Guardian
- Nottingham Review and General Advertiser for the Midland Counties
- Nottingham Gazette, and Political, Literary, Agricultural & Commercial Register for the Midland Counties
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of Nottinghamshire 1569 & 1614 is available on the Heraldry page.