Newington, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Newington, a village and a parish in Oxfordshire. The village stands on the river Thame, 4½ miles N of Wallingford, and 5½ E of Culham railway station. The parish contains also the liberty of Berrick Prior, the tithings of Brook-Lampton and Great Holcombe, and the chapelry of Britwell Prior, which is noticed separately. Post town, Wallingford; money order and telegraph office, Stadhampton. Area of Newington, 2111 acres; population, 343; of Britwell Prior, 720 acres; population, 61. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; gross value, £390 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Oxford. The church is an ancient building of stone, chiefly in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, N transept, S porch, and a western tower with spire, rising from an Early English base. It contains, in the S wall, a handsome decorated tomb-recess, and in the church some ancient tombs and monuments.

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 Newington from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Newington 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.