Churchill, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Churchill, a village and a parish in Oxfordshire, on the Chipping-Norton branch of the G.W.R., If mile NE of Chip-ping-Norton Junction railway station, and 3 miles SW of Chipping-Norton, with a post and money order office under Chipping-Norton; telegraph office, Chipping Junction (R.S.) Acreage, 2842; population, 548. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the rectory of Sarsden, in the diocese of Oxford; joint yearly value, £437. Patron, the Earl of Ducie. The church, erected in 1826, is a building of stone in the Perpendicular style, its tower being a good imitation of the Mag-dalen College tower at Oxford on a reduced scale. There are charities and an endowed school for the parishes of Sarsden and Churchill. Warren Hastings was a native. William Smith, the father of British geology, was also born at Churchill. A monument has been erected to both by the Earl of Ducie.

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 Churchill from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Churchill (All Saints))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Churchill 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.