Ipsden, Oxfordshire
Historical Description
Ipsden, a village and a parish in Oxfordshire. The village stands close to the Chiltern Hills, near Icknield Street, 4 miles SE from Wallingford, and 3 NE from Moulsford station on the G.W.R., and is a picturesque place. The parish comprises 3427 acres; population, 754. It has a post office under Wallingford; money order and telegraph office, Wallingford. A well near Berin's Hill is supposed to be of Roman origin. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of North Stoke, together with the rectory of Newn-ham Murren, in the diocese of Oxford; joint net yearly value, £308. Patron, St John's College, Cambridge. The church has Norman traces, and is variously Early English, Decorated, and Perpendicular. Ipsden House is the chief residence.
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 | North Stoke | |
| Hundred | Langtree | |
| Poor Law union | Henley |
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 Ipsden 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 Ipsden 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.