Hornton, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Hornton, a parish, with a village, in Oxfordshire, adjacent to Warwickshire and under Edge Hill, 5 miles W by S from Cropredy station on the G.W.R., and 5½ NW of Banbury. It has a post office under Banbury; money order office, Tysoe; telegraph office, Wroxton. Acreage, 1422; population of the civil parish, 426; of the ecclesiastical, with Horley, 703. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Horley, in the diocese of Oxford; joint net value,, £449 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is partly of the 12th century, partly of the 13th, and is a building of stone in the Norman, Early English, and Decorated styles. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel and an endowed national school.

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 Hornton from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Hornton (St. John the Baptist))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Hornton 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.