Little Milton, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Milton, Little, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Oxfordshire, on the river Thame, 4¼ miles W by S of Tetsworth, 3½ SW from Tiddington station on the Wycombe, Thame, and Oxford branch of the G.W.R., and 7 SW by W of Thame. There is a post and money order office under Tetsworth; telegraph office, Great Milton. Acreage of the township, 1348; population, 348; of the ecclesiastical parish, 368. The manor belongs to the Boulton family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; gross value, £245 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Oxford. Ascot is a hamlet 2 miles SE of Little Milton, but is included within the limits of the ecclesiastical parish. The church was built in 1844, is in the Early English style, and consists of nave and chancel, with a tower, and a fine peal of six bells.

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 Little Milton from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Little Milton 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.