Milcombe, Oxfordshire
Historical Description
Milcombe, an ecclesiastical parish in Oxfordshire, near the river Swere, 1½ mile SW from Bloxham station on the G.W.R., 4 miles WNW of Deddington, and 5½ W of Aynho. Post town, Banbury; money order and telegraph office, Bloxham. Population, 219. The manor belongs to Christ Church, Oxford. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £161 with residence. Patrons, Eton College three turns, and the Rector of Wigginton one turn. The church, a small building of stone, is chiefly of the 13th century, consists of chancel, nave, N aisle, N porch, and an embattled western tower. There are a Baptist chapel, town lands worth about £22 a year, and a full allotment worth about £29.
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 | Bloxham | |
| Hundred | Bloxham | |
| Poor Law union | Banbury |
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 Milcombe from the following:
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Oxfordshire is available online
Maps
Online maps of Milcombe 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.