Chadlington, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Chadlington, a township in the parish of Charlbury, Oxfordshire. It stands near the river Evenlode and the Oxford and Worcester section of the G.W.R., 4 miles NW by N of Charlbury station, and 3½ SSE of Chipping-Norton, and has a post and money order office under Charlbury; telegraph office, Charlbury. Acreage, 3450; population of the township, 685; of the ecclesiastical parish with Shorthamp-ton and Charlbury, 2361. The living is a chapelry annexed "with that of Shorthampton to the vicarage of Charlbury; joint gross yearly value, £500. Patron, St John's College, Oxford. The church is a building of stone, principally of the Early English and Decorated periods. There is a Baptist chapel, erected in 1842, and a Roman Catholic chapel, erected in 1881. Langton House is a fine country seat, standing at an elevation of nearly 500 feet above sea level, commanding very beautiful views over the surrounding country.

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 Chadlington from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Chadlington, West)

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Chadlington 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.