Great Haseley, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Haseley, Great, a township and a parish in Oxfordshire. The township lies 3 miles W from Tetsworth, and 2 S from Tiddington station on the G.W.R., and has a post office under Tetsworth; money order office, Little Milton; telegraph office, Great Milton. The parish contains also the township of Little Haseley, the liberty of Eycote, and the hamlets of Latchf—rd and Lobb. Acreage, 3255; population, 623. The manor was given by the Conqueror to Milo Crispin, passed to the Bassets, the Brothertons, the Pipards, the Lenthalls, and others, and now belongs to the Boulton family. Haseley Court is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net yearly value, £641 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Canons of Windsor. The church is ancient, has a fine entrance-porch and a lofty embattled tower, and contains stone stalls and an altar-tomb. There are a Congregational chapel, and considerable charity estates for schools, apprenticing, and the poor. Leiand the antiquary was rector, and Delafield, the author of a history of the parish, was a native.

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 Great Haseley from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Haseley, Great (St. Peter))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Great Haseley 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.