Bodicote, Oxfordshire
Historical Description
Bodicote, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in the civil parish of Adderbury, Oxford, near the Oxford Canal and the Cherwell river, 2 miles S of Banbury, and 3 from Bloxham station on the G.W.R., with a post, money order, and telegraph office under Banbury. Acreage of township, 1299, of which 11 are water; population, 715. Bodicote House, Bodicott Grange, and Red House are the chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £270 with residence. Patron, New College, Oxford. The church is an ancient building of stone, and there are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels. Rhubarb and henbane for medicine are cultivated.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Oxfordshire | |
| Civil parish | East Adderbury | |
| Hundred | Bloxham | |
| Poor Law union | Banbury |
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.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Bodicote from the following:
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Oxfordshire is available online
Maps
Online maps of Bodicote 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.