Bruern, Oxfordshire
Historical Description
Bruern, a township which forms part of the ecclesiastical parish of Milton-under-Wychwood, in Oxfordshire, 5 miles N of Burford, and 2½ SW of Chipping-Norton Junction station on the G.W.R. There is a post and money order office at Milton, under Chipping-Norton; telegraph office, Shipton railway station. Acreage, 1876; population, 38. A Cistercian abbey was founded here in 1147 by Nicholas Basset, and given in the time of James I. to Sir Anthony Cope. The buildings were changed into a private residence, and were destroyed by fire in the 18th century. Old fish-ponds connected with them still exist.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Oxfordshire | |
| Hundred | Chadlington | |
| Poor Law union | Chipping-Norton |
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 Bruern from the following:
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.