Mixbury, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Mixbury, a village and a parish in Oxfordshire. The village stands near the boundary with Northamptonshire, the river Ouse, and the Banbury line of the L. & N.W.R., 2 miles SE of Brackley station, and 6 W by S of Buckingham, and has a post office under Brackley; money order and telegraph office, Brackley. The parish contains also th& hamlet of Fulwell, and formerly contained the township of Woolaston, which now forms part of the parish of Hethe. Acreage, 2449; population of the civil parish, 230; of the ecclesiastical, 239. The manor belonged at one time to Sir Piers Gaveston, the favourite of Edward II. Traces exist of an old moated castle built by D'Oiley in the reign of William the Conqueror, probably on the site of an ancient Roman encampment. This castle of Beaumont formed one of a chain of forts running through the Midlands, of which Oxford remains. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; gross value, £200 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Oxford. The church is an ancient building of stone of the Decorated period, consists of nave, N aisle, and chancel, with an embattled western tower, and contains a good Norman doorway with some curious Eunic crosses on the imposts. It was restored by the Rev. W. Jocelyn Palmer, for fifty years rector of Mixbury (from 1802 to 1852). Earl Sel-bome, his son, was born here. There is a monument to Sir John Wellesborne, a former lord of the manor, who was succeeded by the Bathurst family, from whom it passed to the Batsons.

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 Mixbury from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Mixbury (All Saints))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Mixbury 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.