Cowley, Middle, Temple, and Church, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Cowley, Middle, Temple, and Church, a parish, part of which is within the municipal and parliamentary limits of Oxford, in Oxfordshire, adjacent to the river Thames, half a mile NW from Littlemore station on the G.W.R., and extending 2½ miles SSE from Oxford. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Oxford. Acreage, 1423; population, 10,339. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net yearly value, £161 with residence. Patron, Christ Church, Oxford. The church, an ancient building of stone in mixed styles, was restored and enlarged in 1865. There is a Wesleyan chapel. The Oxford Military College for sons of officers and candidates for the military service, founded in 1876, is in this parish. For Cowley St John, see OXFORD.

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 Cowley, Middle, Temple, and Church from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Cowley, Middle, Temple, and Church 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.