Mongewell, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Mongewell, a village and a parish in Oxfordshire, on the river Thames, at the boundary with Berks, 1½ mile S of Wallingford station on the G.W.R., and 12 miles NW by N of Reading. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Wallingford. Acreage, 1654; population of the civil parish, 177; of the ecclesiastical, 118. The manor belonged at Domesday to Roger de Lacy. Mongewell House was formerly the seat of Dr Barrington, bishop of Durham. The present mansion is a modern building standing in 80 acres of grounds. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £225 with residence. The church is a neat building of flint and rubble in the Norman style, and contains a monument to a Saunders, and a tablet to the wife of Bishop Barrington.

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 Mongewell from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Mongewell (St. John the Baptist))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Mongewell 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.