Kelmscott, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Kelmscott, a township chapelry in Bradwell parish, Oxford, on the river Thames, at the boundary with Berks and Gloucester, 2½ miles E by S from Lechlade station on the G.W.R., and 4 NW from Farringdon. Post town, Swindon; money order and telegraph office, Lechlade. Acreage, 1037; population, 145. The manor, with Kelmscott House, a fine Tudor mansion, belongs to the Hobbs family. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Bradwell, in the diocese of Oxford. The church is an ancient cruciform building of stone in mixed styles.

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 Kelmscott from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Kelmscott 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.