Horley, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Horley, a parish, with a village, in Oxfordshire, at the boundary with Warwick, 4 miles NW from Banbury town and stations on the L. & N.W.B. and G.W.R. It has a post office under Banbury; money order and telegraph office, Wroxton. Acreage, 1192 acres; population of the civil parish, 277; of the ecclesiastical, with Homton, 703. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford, united with the vicarage of Hornton; joint net value, £449 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is Early and Decorated English, with a central tower on Norman foundations, and has a beautiful Early English piscina and an Early Norman font. There is.also an excellent fresco of St Christopher on the N wall. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a school with £52 from endowment, 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 Horley from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Horley 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.