Curbridge, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Curbridge, a township in Witney parish, Oxfordshire, 1½ mile SW of Witney. It has a post office under Faringdon; money order and telegraph office, Witney; contains Witney workhouse, and includes Curbridge down. Acreage, 2983; population, 703. There is a chapel of ease to the parish church, and a small Primitive Methodist chapel here. An old moated mansion, Caswell House, formerly a baronial residence, is now occupied as a farmhouse. Viscount Wenman appears to have resided there as late as the beginning of the 18th century. Curbridge includes in its area the parish church of Witney, the rectory house, and what still remains of the ancient summer palace of the Bishops of Winchester, to whom belonged the patronage of the benefice from Saxon times until Bishop Wilberforce obtained it for the See of 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.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Curbridge from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Curbridge 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.