Aston Rowant, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Aston-Rowant, a parish and a village in Oxfordshire, under the Chiltern Hills, near Icknield Street, 3½ miles SE of Tetsworth, with a station of the same name on the G.W.R. It includes the liberties of Chalford and Kingston-Blount, the latter containing the hamlet of Kingston-Stirt; and its post town is Tetsworth; money order office, Chinnor; telegraph office, Lewknor. Acreage, 2924; population, 601. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net yearly value, £120 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Oxford. The church is Early English, and contains an elegant ancient font. There are a chapel of ease at Kingston-Blount, erected in 1877, and Congregational and Methodist chapels. Aston House, Kingston House, and Kingston Grove, are chief residences.

Administration

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

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

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.

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 Aston Rowant from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Aston-Rowant (St. Peter And St. Paul))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Aston Rowant 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.