North Stoke, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Stoke, North, a village and a parish in Oxfordshire, on the river Thames, 2 miles S of Wallingford, and 1½ mile NE from Monlsford station on the G.W.R. There is a post office under Wallingford; money order and telegraph office, Wallingford. Acreage, 853; population of the civil parish, 161; of the ecclesiastical, 611. The ecclesiastical district of Stoke Row returns five members to the parish council, and Ipsden three. The manor, with most of the land, belongs to the Fraser family. The living is a vicarage, united with Ipsden and the rectory of Newnham Murren, in the diocese of Oxford; joint net value, £308 with residence. Patron, St John's College, Cambridge. The church is an ancient building of flint and stone in the Early English and Decorated styles.

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 North Stoke from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Stoke, North (St. Mary))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of North Stoke 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.