Goring, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Goring, a village and a parish in Oxfordshire. The village, formerly called Little Nottingham, stands at the verge of the county, on the river Thames and the G.W.R., near Icknield Street, 6 miles S of Wallingford, is connected by a bridge with Streatley in Berks, presents a picturesque appearance, has a station on the railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Reading. The parish comprises 4611 acres; population, 1487. Roman coins, vases, pavements, and substructions have been found. A mineral spring here was formerly in high repute for cutaneous diseases. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net yearly value, £315 with residence. The church, which stands almost on the bank of the river, is a curious and interesting building of chalk, rubble, and flint. It is chiefly Norman, and has an embattled tower, with a conical topped round turret. A priory once stood adjacent to the church, was founded in the time of Henry II., and was given to Sir T. Pope, the founder of Trinity College, Oxford. There are a Lady Huntingdon's chapel, a temperance hall erected in 1878, a workman's club erected in 1888, some endowed almshouses for four old men, and some valuable charities. Goring Heath is a hamlet 4 miles to the E of the church, and is noteworthy for Allnutt's Hospital, a charity founded in the 18th century, and consisting of twelve almshouses for old men, a chapel, an endowed school for boys and girls, and a chaplain's residence.

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 Goring from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Goring (St. Thomas à Becket))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Goring 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.