Nettlebed, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Nettlebed, a village and a parish in Oxfordshire. The village stands on an eminence of the Chiltern Hills, 5 miles NW of Henley station on the G.W.K.; is a pleasant place, with well-built, neat, and very clean principal street, contains several good inns and shops; is a polling place, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Henley-on-Thames, and a fair on the Monday before 29 Oct. The parish comprises 1172 acres; population, 697. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. Windmill Hill is 696 feet above the village, and commands beautiful and extensive views. Nettlebed Hill rises to a height of about 608 feet above sea-level. Some trade is done in beech timber, and bricks, tiles, and coarse potteryware are made from a greenish-white sandy clay which is found here in great abundance. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £100 with residence. The church was rebuilt in 1845, and is a plain edifice in the Decorated style. There is a Congregational chapel.

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 Nettlebed from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Nettlebed (St. Bartholomew))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Nettlebed 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.