Long Combe, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Combe, Long, a village and a parish in Oxfordshire, on the river Evenlode, 2¼ miles NW of Handborough station on the G.W.R., and 2½ WSW of Woodstock, with a post, money order, and telegraph office under Woodstock. Acreage, 1417; population, 527. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; value, £255. Patron, the Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford. The church, dedicated to St Lawrence, was built in 1395, and is a building of stone in the Perpendicular style. The chancel was restored in 1887, There are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan 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 Long Combe from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Combe, Long (St. Lawrence))

Land and Property

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

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.