Chalgrove, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Chalgrove, a village and a parish in Oxfordshire. The village stands on an affluent of the Thame, 5 miles SW of Tetsworth, and 5 NW from Watlington station on the G.W.R. It has a post office under Wallingford; money order and telegraph office, Stadhampton. The parish includes also the liberty of Rufford. Acreage, 2433; population of the civil parish, 437; of the ecclesiastical, 504. A skirmish was fought on Chalgrove Field in 1643, between the Royalists under Prince Rupert and the Parliamentarians. John Hampden at first mustered the Bucks militia on the same ground, and he led them in this skirmish, and received then his death-wound. A pillar to his memory, bearing a medallion portrait and an inscription, was erected on the spot in 1843. The living is a vicarage, united with the chapelry of Berwick-Salome, in the diocese of Oxford; net yearly value, £230 with residence. Patron, Christ Church, Oxford. The church is Norman and Early Decorated; consists of nave, two aisles, and chancel, with a tower; and contains an octagonal font and several fine monuments. It was restored in 1883. There is a Wesleyan 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 Chalgrove from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Chalgrove (St. Mary))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Chalgrove 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.