Salford, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Salford, a parish, with a village, in Oxfordshire, 2 miles WNW of Chipping Norton station on the West Midland section of the G.W.R. Post town and money order and-telegraph office, Chipping Norton. Acreage, 1567; population, 347. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The manor, with most of the land, belongs to the Dawkins family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; gross value, £298 with residence. The church, which was partly rebuilt in 1855, is a building of stone in mixed styles, chiefly Early English, but with Norman, Perpendicular, and Geometrical portions, consisting of chancel, nave, N aisle, S porch, and an embattled western tower. There is a Wesleyan 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 Salford from the following:

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