Lewknor, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Lewknor, a village and a parish in Oxfordshire. The village stands near Icknield Street, under the Chilterns, 2¼ miles NE of Watlington, and 1 mile W of Aston Rowant station on the G.W.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Tetsworth. Acreage of the civil parish, 2667; population, 428; of the ecclesiastical, 451. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £214 with residence. Patrons, All Souls' College, Oxford. The church, a fine building of flint with dressings of stone, is of various dates, having a Late Norman nave and chancel arch, with a mortuary chapel, a Decorated English chancel and S aisle, and a square tower of Perpendicular date; it contains a curious rich Norman font, a brass of 1380, some very interesting monuments, both ancient and modern, and eight stained windows. The hamlets of Postcombe, Stutridge, and Well-ground are included in the ecclesiastical parish, but for civil purposes the two latter are attached to Stokenchurch. Lewknor has a parish council of five members.

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 Lewknor from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Lewknor 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.