Britwell Prior, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Britwell Prior, a chapelry in Newington parish, Oxford, under the Chilterns, 1½ mile SW of Watlington station on the G.W.R., and 6 NE from Wallingford. Post town, Tetsworth; money order and telegraph office, Watlington. Acreage, 720; population, 61. An ancient priory stood here, and a nunnery of St Clare was set up for some time by French nuns who fled from the first revolution. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the rectory of Britwell Salome, in the diocese of Oxford. The church was taken down in 1865. Britwell House is a chief residence.

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.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Britwell Prior from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Britwell-Prior)

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.