Headington, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Headington, a village, a parish, and head of a union in Oxfordshire. The village stands near the river Cherwell, 1¼ mile ENE from Oxford, which is the nearest railway station. The parish is partly within the municipal and parliamentary limits of the city and county borough of Oxford as extended under the Local Government Act of 1888. There is a post, money order, and telegraph office under Oxford. The parish comprises 2257 acres; population of the entire civil parish, 3342; of the ecclesiastical, 2156. A palace of Ethel-red stood at Court Close. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net yearly value, £200. The church is ancient, but has been mainly rebuilt, and consists of nave, aisle, and chancel, with embattled tower. There is a chapel at New Headington belonging to the Established Church, and there are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels. The Wingfield Convalescent Home is in connection with the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. Headington Hill and Headington House are chief residences. The workhouse, which is a plain building of stone, has accommodation for 280 inmates.

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 Headington from the following:

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