South Newington, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Newington, South, a village and a parish in Oxfordshire. The village stands on the river Swere, 2 miles from Bloxham station on the Banbury and Cheltenham branch of the G.W.R., 4 WNW of Deddington, and 6 SW of Banbury, and has a post office under Banbury; money order and telegraph office, Bloxham. The parish comprises 1437 acres; population, 282. The manor belongs to the Brassey family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; gross value, £160 with residence. Patron, Exeter College, Oxford. The church, which stands on an eminence, is a fine building of stone, shows features of Norman, Early English, Decorated,. and Perpendicular styles of architecture, and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and an embattled western tower. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel and a Friends' meeting-house.

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 South Newington from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Newington, South (St. Peter))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of South Newington 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.