Rotherfield Peppard, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Rotherfield Peppard, a parish in Oxfordshire, 3½ miles W by S of Henley station on the G.W.R. Post town, Henley-on-Thames. Acreage, 2194; population of the civil parish, 453; of the ecclesiastical, 424. There is a parish council consisting of six members. The manor belonged in the 13th century to W. Pipard, and passed to the Botelers, the Draytons, and others, and after belonging to the Camoys family for generations it is now in possession of the Gardiners.. Blount Court is a square mansion of stone and brick, standing in a well-wooded park about 32 acres in extent. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £361 with residence. Patron, Jesus College, Oxford. The church is a small but ancient building of flint and stone of the Norman period, consisting of chancel, nave, N aisle, and S porch. It has some good memorial windows, and an ancient cup-shaped Norman font. There is a Congregational 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.

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 Rotherfield Peppard from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Rotherfield-Peppard (All Saints))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Rotherfield Peppard 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.