Stoke Lyne, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Stoke Lyne, a parish, with Fewcott and Bainton hamlets, Oxfordshire, 4½ miles NNW of Bicester station on the L. & N.W.R. It has a post office under Bicester; money order office, Fringford; telegraph office, Stratton Audley. Acreage, 3901; population of the civil parish, 511; of the ecclesiastical, with Caversfield and Fewcott, 639. There is a parish council which consists of six members. The manor, with Swifts House, belongs to the Peyton family. The living is a vicarage, with Caversfield and Fewcott annexed, in the diocese of Oxford; joint net value, £171 with residence. The church is a small but ancient edifice of stone in mixed styles, consisting of chancel, nave, S porch, and an embattled tower. There is a chapel of ease with a parsonage and school at Fewcott.

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 Stoke Lyne from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Stoke-Lyne (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 Stoke Lyne 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.