Langford, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Langford, a village and a parish in Oxfordshire. The village stands 2 miles from the boundary with Gloucestershire, 2- from that with Berks, 3½ NE of Lechlade, and 3 SW of Alvescot station on the G.W.R., and has a post office under Lechlade; money order office, Filkins; telegraph office, Lechlade. The parish contains also the hamlets of Grafton and Eadcot. Acreage, 3183; population of the civil parish, 447; of the ecclesiastical parish, 447. Most of the property belongs to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. Grafton Manor belongs to the Dean and Students of Christ Church, Oxford. The river Isis runs on the S boundary, and is crossed there "by a bridge of the 13th century. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £248 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Oxford. The church is a very ancient building in the Norman and Later styles, and there are also Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels.

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 Langford from the following:

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