Great Tew, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Tew, Great, a parish, with a pretty village, in Oxfordshire, 5¼ miles ENE of Chipping Norton, and 4½ SE from Hook Norton station on the Banbury and Cheltenham branch of the G.W.R. It has a post office under Enstone (S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Enstone. Acreage, 3007; population, 433. There is a parish council of five members. Roman remains and corns have been found. The manor, with Tew Park, a fine mansion in the Classic style standing in a well-wooded park of 120 acres, belongs to the Boulton family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; gross value, £131 with residence. The church, an ancient edifice in mixed styles, consists of chancel, nave, aisles, and a tower with a peal of eight bells. It contains several ancient and interesting tombs and monuments, and brasses of 1400 and 1513. The vicarage is an ancient mansion dating in part from 1696.

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 Great Tew from the following:

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

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 Tew 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.