Cropredy, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Cropredy, a village and a parish in Oxfordshire. The village adjoins the Cherwell river, the Oxford Canal, and the Oxford and Birmingham section of the G.W.R., near the boundaries with Warwick and Northampton, 4 miles N of Banbury, and has a station on the railway, and a post and money order office under Leamington Spa, with a telegraph office at the railway station. The parish includes the ecclesiastical parishes of Great and Little Bourton and Claydon, noticed separately, and the lordship of Prescote on the borders of Northamptonshire. Acreage, 1828 of land and "of water; population of Cropredy with Prescote, 476. A battle was fought here in 1644 between the Royalists and the Parliamentarians, when the latter were defeated. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; value, £231 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Oxford. The church is a fine building of stone in the style of the 14th and 15th centuries, and has monuments of the Danvers and Gostelows. The register begins in 1538. 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 Cropredy from the following:

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