Ramsden, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Ramsden, a township-chapelry in Shipton-under-Wychwood parish, Oxfordshire, on Akeman Street and in Wychwood. Forest, 3¼ miles S of Charlbury station on the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton section of the G.W.R., and 3½ N by W of Witney. It has a post office under Oxford; money order and telegraph office, Charlbury. Acreage, 920; population, 424. The manor belongs to Lord Churchill. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; gross value, £19. Patron, the Bishop of Oxford. The church, erected in 1872 on the site of an earlier building, is an edifice of stone in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, S-aisle, and a small square tower with an octagonal broach spire. There is a Methodist 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.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Ramsden from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Ramsden 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.