Hailey, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Hailey, a township and a chapelry in Witney parish, Oxfordshire. The township lies near the river Wmdrush, 3 miles N by W from Witney station on the G.W.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Witney. Area, 2879 acres; population of the township, 1365; of the ecclesiastical district, 818. The chapelry includes also the hamlet of Crawley, and bears the name of Hailey-cum-Crawley. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; gross value, £310. Patron, the Bishop of Oxford. St John's Church, Hailey, was rebuilt in 1869; St Peter's Church, Crawley, was built in 1847. There are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels, an endowed school, and some small charities.

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 Hailey from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Hailey)

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Hailey 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.