Crowmarsh Gifford, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Crowmarsh Gifford, a parish in Oxfordshire, on the river Thames, adjacent on the east to Wallingford station on the G.W.R., and 13 miles SSE of Oxford. It has a post office of the name of Crowmarsh under Wallingford; money order and telegraph office, Wallingford. Acreage, 661; population, 300. A small hospital was founded here about the middle of the 13th century. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net yearly value, £165 with residence The church is an ancient and interesting building dating from the middle of the 12th century. How-bery Park is a chief residence. Coprolites are found here, and a horse fair is held annually on 2 August.

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 Crowmarsh Gifford from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Crowmarsh Gifford 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.