Charlton upon Otmoor, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Charlton-upon-Otmoor, a village and a parish in Oxfordshire. The village stands adjacent to the river Ray, near the Roman road over Otmoor, and 2½ miles NE of Islip station on the L. & N.W.R., and 5 SSW of Bicester. The ecclesiastical parish includes also the hamlets of Fencot and Murcot. It has a post office under Oxford; money order office, Islip; telegraph office, Kidlington. Acreage of Charlton, 822; population, 294; of the ecclesiastical parish, 477. Part of the land is marshy. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; yearly value, £421 including residence, in the gift of Queen's College, Oxford. The church is cruciform, Early English, and good, and contains a richly-carved oaken rood screen, stone stalls, and an ancient brass. At Murcot there is a Primitive Methodist chapel, and a Baptist chapel at Charlton.

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 Charlton upon Otmoor from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Charlton-upon-Otmore (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 Charlton upon Otmoor 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.