Sandford St Martin, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Sandford, St Martin, a village and a parish in Oxfordshire. The village stands on the river Dome, 4½ miles W by N from Heyford station on the Oxford and Banbury branch of the G. W. R., and 7 NW from Woodstock. It has a post office under Oxford; money order and telegraph office, Middle Barton. Acreage of parish, 2292; population, 443. There is a parish council consisting of five members. Sandford Park is a chief residence standing in a park of over 100 acres. An ancient cross stands in the village, believed to date from the 13th century. It was restored from a design by the late G. E. Street, B.A., in 1856. Ledwell is a hamlet 1 mile N from the village. A former large mansion here was the seat of Earl Deloraine. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; gross value, £140. The church is a building of stone in mixed styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and an embattled western tower. It contains a Norman font and some ancient memorials. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel at Ledwell.

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 Sandford St Martin from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Sandford St Martin 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.