Stanton St John, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Stanton St John, a parish in Oxfordshire, 2½ miles NNW of Wheatley station on the G.W.R., and 4½ ENE of Oxford. It has a post office under Oxford; money order and telegraph office, Headington. Acreage, 2731; population, 497. There is a parish council consisting of six members. The manor belongs to New College, Oxford. Woodperry is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; gross value, £7 and 266 acres of glebe, with residence. Patron, New College, Oxford. The church, which dates from the time of Edward I., is a beautiful and interesting building of stone, in mixed styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, and an embattled western tower. There is a school endowment which produces about £40 a year.

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 Stanton St John from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Stanton St. John (St. John the Baptist))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Stanton St John 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.