Holwell, Oxfordshire
Historical Description
Holwell, an ecclesiastical parish formed in 1850, in Bradwell parish, Oxfordshire. It lies near the boundary with Gloucestershire, 2½ iriiles SSW from Burford, and 4½ NNW from Alvescot station on the G.W.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Burford (R.S.O.) Population, 184. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; gross yearly value, £110 with residence. The church is modern, and in the Early English style.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Oxfordshire | |
| Civil parish | Broadwell | |
| Hundred | Bampton | |
| Poor Law union | Witney |
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 Holwell from the following:
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Oxfordshire is available online
Maps
Online maps of Holwell 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.