Stoke Row, Oxfordshire
Historical Description
Stoke Row, a liberty in the civil parish of Ipsden, and an ecclesiastical parish in Ipsden, Newnham Murren, and Mongewell parishes, Oxfordshire, among the Chilterns, 6½ miles WNW of Henley station on the G.W.R., and 6 SE of Wallingford. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1849, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Henley-on-Thames. Population, 577. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; gross value, £120 with residence. Patron, St John's College, Cambridge. The church was built in 1846, and is an edifice of stone, consisting of nave and tower only. There is a Congregational chapel. A well 346 feet deep, and fitted with machinery for drawing up the water, was presented to the village in 1863 by the Maharajah of Benares.
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.
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 Row 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.