Leafield cum Wychwood, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Leafield-cum-Wychwood, a township and an ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1868 from the civil parish of Shipton-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire, in Wychwood Forest, near Akeman Street, 2½ miles SSE of Ascott station on the G.W.R., and 4 NW by N of Witney. There is a post office under Witney; money order office, Witney; telegraph office, Ascott railway station. Acreage of the township, 901; population, 734; of the ecclesiastical parish, with Wychwood, 946. The manor belongs to Lord Churchill. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £70. Patron, the Bishop of Oxford. The church was built in 1860, is in the Early English style, and has a central octagonal tower and spire 145 feet high. There is also a Baptist chapel. Two barrows are in the parish, and there is an ancient cross near the church, which was restored in 1873.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

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

Ancient County	Oxfordshire
Civil parish	Shipton under Whichwood
Hundred	Chadlington
Poor Law union	Chipping-Norton

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Church Records

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Leafield cum Wychwood from the following:

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

Land and Property

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Visitations Heraldic

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