Stoke Talmage, Oxfordshire
Historical Description
Stoke Talmage, a secluded village and a parish in Oxfordshire, 5 miles SW by S of Thame, and 3½ N from Watlington station on the Princes Risborough and Watlington branch of the G.W.R. Post town, Tetsworth. Acreage, 869; population, 97. The manor belongs to the Earl of Macclesfield, who is sole landowner. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; gross value, £260 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Macelesfield. The church is a small building of stone in mixed styles. It contains two brasses of 1504 and 1589.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Oxfordshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Stoke-Talmage St. Mary Magdalene | |
Hundred | Pirton | |
Poor Law union | Thame |
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 Stoke Talmage from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Stoke-Talmage (St. Mary Magdalene))
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 Talmage 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.