Heythrop, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Heythrop, a parish in Oxfordshire, on a headstream of the river Glyme, 3 miles E by N from Chipping Norton station on the G.W.R. It includes the hamlet of Dunthrop, and its post town is Chipping Norton; money order and telegraph office, Enstone. Acreage, 1763; population, 254. Heythrop House, formerly the seat of the Earl of Shrewsbury, was destroyed by fire in 1831, but has been replaced by a fine modern mansion of stone in the Italian style. The house is surrounded by pleasure gardens and a well-wooded park of 300 acres, and is the seat of the Brassey family, who are lords of the manor and sole landowners. A Carthusian monastery was founded here in 1222 by William Longespee, and removed to Hinton in Somerset. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net value,, £241. The church, built in 1879-80, at the sole cost of Mr A. Brassey, is an edifice of stone in the Geometrical style.

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 Heythrop from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Heythrop 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.