Brize Norton, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Brize-Norton, a village and a parish in Oxfordshire. The village stands 3 miles N by E of Bampton, and 4 SW of Witney. It has a post office (S.O.) under Bampton, which is the money order and telegraph office. Bampton station on the G.W.R. is in this parish. Acreage, 3265; population, 610. The living is a discharged vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net yearly value, £150 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Canons of Christ Church, Oxford. The church, an ancient building of stone in mixed styles, with an Early English tower at the W end, which has a good parapet. There is a fine Norman doorway in the south porch, and a beautiful ancient screen separating the nave from the chancel. The church was restored in 1868 by the late Mr. G. E. Street. There is also a Primitive Methodist chapel.

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 Brize Norton from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Norton, Brize (St. Brise))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Brize Norton 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.