Kirtlington, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Kirtlington, a village and a parish in Oxfordshire. The village stands near the river Cherwell and the Oxford Canal, 1½ mile E of the Bletchington station on the Oxford and Birmingham section of the G.W.R., and 4 miles NE by E of Woodstock; was known by the name of Curtelinton, and was the meeting-place in 977 of a synod at which King Edward the Martyr and St Dunstan of Canterbury were present, and has a post and money order office under Oxford; telegraph office, Bletchington. The parish comprises 3582 acres; population, 733. The manor belonged to the Bassets, passed to Thomas of Woodstock and others, and belongs now to the Dashwood family. Kirtlington Park, the seat of the Dash-wood family, is an imposing mansion of the 18th century, amid very extensive grounds. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £196. Patron, St John's College, Oxford. The church is partly Norman, partly of the 13th century, partly quite recent, consists of nave, aisles, chantry, and chancel, with a tower, underwent extensive repair, and bad the tower rebuilt in 1853, and the chancel in 1877, and contains a memorial window and monuments of the Dashwoods. There are a Wesleyan chapel and some small charities.

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 Kirtlington from the following:

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