Kidlington, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Kidlington, a village and a parish in Oxford sliire. The village stands on the river Cherwell and the Oxford Canal, 1 mile E of the Kidlington station on the Oxford and Wolverhampton section of the G.W.R., and 5 N of Oxford city. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Oxford. Acreage of the civil parish, 4768; population, 1040; of the ecclesiastical, with Water Eaton and the hamlets, 1370. The manor belonged to Thomas Chaucer, the son of the poet, and now belongs to the Duke of Marl-borough. The church is a large and beautiful cruciform building of stone, chiefly of the 15th century, but ranging from Norman to Later English; has an Early English central tower with Later English spire, and contains curiously carved old oak pews, and a memorial window of 1858 to the Rev. Dr Richards, a former vicar. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £220 with residence, in the gift of Exeter College, Oxford. There is a Wesleyan chapel, an endowed almshouse for six poor persons, and a few small charities. Water Eaton in this parish is a parochial chapelry, 4 miles N from Oxford, on the river Cherwell. It has a fine old manor house, now used as a farmhouse, and a chapel of the revived Gothic style of the time of James I. Gosford is an adjacent hamlet. Thrupp, 1½ mile distant, is a hamlet having a church mission room and a Baptist chapel. Kidmore End, a village in Caversham parish, and an ecclesiastical parish formed in 1854 from the civil parishes of Shiplake, Sonning, and] Caversham in Oxfordshire. The village stands 4 miles N of Reading station on the G.W.R., and has a post office under Reading; money order and telegraph office, Caversham. Population of the ecclesiastical parish, 733. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £246 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Oxford. The church, erected in 1852, is a building of flint and stone in the Early English style. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel at Gallows Tree Common. Kidmore Grange and Cane End House are chief residences.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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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 Kidlington from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Kidlington 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.