Nuffield, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Nuffield, a parish, with a village, in Oxfordshire, among the Chiltern Hills, 4 miles ESE of Wallingford station on the G.W.R., and 7½ NW by W of Henley-on-Thames. Post town, Henley-on-Thames; money order and telegraph office, Nettlebed. Acreage, 2104; population, 236. The manor belongs to the Langham family. A Trinitarian friary was founded here before 1360. Nuffield Common rises to an altitude of 757 feet above sea-level. The living is a rectory :n the diocese of Oxford; net value, £227 with residence. The church, a building of flint, rubble, and stone in the Decorated style, is partly ancient and was partly rebuilt by Ferrey in 1850, has a tower, and contains a cup-shaped font of the 13th century, with an inscription in Lombardic characters round the upper part-"Fonte sacro lotum vel mnndat gracia totum, Vel non est sacri mundacio plena lavseri."

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 Nuffield from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Nuffield (Holy Trinity))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Nuffield 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.