South Stoke, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Stoke, South, a parish, with a village, and with Woodcote liberty, in Oxfordshire, on the river Thames and the G.W.R., 2 miles N from Goring station, and 4 S of Wallingford. It has a post and telegraph office under Reading; money order office. Goring. Acreage, 3370; population, 717. The limits include part of the Chiltern Hills. There is a parish council which meets alternately at South Stoke and Woodcote. The manor with most. of the land belongs to the Dean and Chapter of Christchurch, Oxford. The living is a vicarage, with Woodcote chapelry, in the diocese of Oxford; gross value, £319 with residence. Patron, Christchurch, Oxford. The church is a building of rubble and flint chiefly in the Late Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and an embattled western tower. The church at Woodcote was rebuilt in 1845-46, and is a building of flint in the Norman style.

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 Stoke from the following:

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

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 Stoke 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.