Fulbrook, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Fulbrook, a parish in Oxfordshire, three-quarters of a mile NNE of Burford, and 4 miles SSW of Shipton station on the G.W.R. Post town, Burford (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Burford. Acreage, 1853; population of the civil parish, 302; of the ecclesiastical, 1907. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Burford, in the diocese of Oxford; joint net yearly value, £165 with residence. The church is an ancient building of stone, partly in the Norman and partly in Later styles. There is a Wesleyan chapel.

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.

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Fulbrook 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.