Piddington, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Piddington, a parish, with a village, in Oxfordshire, under Muswell Hill, at the boundary with Bucks, 5½ miles SE of Bicester station on the Oxford and Bletchley branch of the L. & N.W.R. Post town, Thame; money order and telegraph office, Brill. Acreage, 2354; population, 280. The manor belongs to the Aubrey family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; gross value, £300 with residence. The church, which dates from the 15th century, is a building of stone partly in the Decorated and partly in the Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave, S aisle, and an embattled western tower. It has a brass of 1613 and an ancient cup-shaped font.

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 Piddington from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Piddington 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.