Ducklington, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Ducklington, a village and a parish in Oxfordshire. The village stands on the river Windrush, 1½ mile S of W½itney town and station on the G.W.R. The parish includes also the chapelry of Hardwick. It has a post office under Witney; money order and telegraph office, Witney. Acreage, 1934; population, 439. Cokethorpe Park, the seat of the Strick-land family, is a fine mansion standing in a park of 170 acres. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford, with the chapelry of Hardwick annexed; net yearly value, o£380 with residence. Patron, Magdalen College, Oxford. The church is an ancient and interesting building of stone in mixed styles, has a rich north aisle, with stone carvings, and contains a Norman font and a remarkable altar-piece. Hardwick, which is a separate parish for civil purposes (population, 100), contains a small and very ancient church.

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 Ducklington from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Ducklington 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.