Standlake, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Standlake, a parish, with a village, in Oxfordshire, on the river Windrush, near the Thames, 4½ miles S by W of South Leigh station on the G.W.R., and 4½ SSE of Witney. It has a post office under Witney; money order office, Longworth; telegraph office, Kingston Bagpuze. Acreage, 2624; population, 619. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The manor belongs to Magdalen College, Oxford. A British settlement was discovered about 1837, but no remains are now to be seen. There is an interesting moated house called Gaunt House, which was garrisoned for King Charles, and stood a siege for some time. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £267 with residence. Patron, Magdalen College, Oxford. The church is an ancient cruciform building of stone in mixed styles, consisting of chancel, transepts, nave, aisles, S porch, and a western tower surmounted by an octagonal spire. There are Baptist and Primitive Methodist chapels, and an endowed school.

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 Standlake from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Standlake 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.