East and West Shutford, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Shutford, East and West, are townships in Swalcliffe parish, Oxfordshire, 5 miles W from Banbury station on the L. & N.W.R. and G.W.R. They have a post office, of the name of Shutford, under Banbury; money order and telegraph-office, Swalcliffe. Area of East Shutford, 409 acres; population, 21; of West Shutford, 952 acres; population, 339. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The manor of East Shutford belongs to Lord Saye and Sele, who is also sole landowner. The manorial rights of West Shutford have become extinct. The living is annexed to the vicarage of Swalcliffe. The church, dedicated to St Martin,. is a small but ancient building of stone, chiefly in the Early English style. There are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.

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 East and West Shutford from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

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.