Idbury, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Idbury, a parish in Oxfordshire, adjacent to Gloucestershire, 2¼ miles SSW of Chipping Norton Junction station on the G.W.R., and 5¼ N by W from Burford. It contains the hamlets of Bowld and Foscott, and its post town is Chipping Norton; money order office, Fifield; telegraph office, Shipton railway station. Acreage, 1565; population, 219. There are vestiges of a large Roman camp. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford, and was annexed in 1865 to Fifield; joint gross value, £321 with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford. The church is Early English, and has a rich Norman door and a tower.

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 Idbury from the following:

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