Great Rollright, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Rollright, Great, a village and a parish in Oxfordshire. The village stands on the borders of Warwickshire, 2½ miles SW from Hook Norton station on the Banbury and Cheltenham branch of the G.W.R., and 3 E by N from Chipping Norton. It was known at Domesday as Rollendri, and has a post office under Chipping Norton; money order and telegraph office, Chipping Norton. The parish comprises 2414 acres; population, 349. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The manor belongs to Brasenose College, Oxford. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; gross value, £49 and glebe. Patron, Brasenose College, Oxford. The church is partly Norman, partly Early English, and consists of chancel, nave, S aisle, S porch, and an embattled western tower. It has an ancient brass of 1522, and contains a monument to Sheppard, the friend of Prior. There are two Baptist chapels, and charities worth about £140 a year. The Stow Road in the parish is the watershed of the Thames and Severn.

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 Rollright from the following:

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

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 Rollright 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.