Kiddington or Cuddington, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Kiddington or Cuddington, a parish in Oxfordshire, on the river Glyme, and on a branch of Akeman Street, 4¼miles W by S of Hey ford station on the G.W.R., and 4½ NW by N of Woodstock. It comprises the hamlets of Nether Kiddington and Over Kiddington, divided by the Givme; and has a post office under Woodstock; money order and telegraph office, Enstone. Acreage, 1894; population of the civil parish, 215; of the ecclesiastical, 252. The manor was known to the Saxons as Cendenton-so named from coed, "a wood;" was given about 780, by Offa, to Worcester Abbey; went, at the Conquest, to Musard; passed to the Salceys, the Willescotes, the Babingtons, and the Brownes, and belongs now, with Kiddington Hall, to the Gaskell family. A Roman camp is at Hillwood, and remains of an old cross are in Over Kiddington. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; gross value, £323 with residence. Patron, Viscount Dillon. The church, which is a building of stone in mixed styles, was built about 1400, on the site of a Norman one; consists of nave, S aisle, and chancel, with W tower; contains a brass of the Rev. W. Goodyear, and was restored in 1879.

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 Kiddington or Cuddington from the following:

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