Stratton Audley, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Stratton Audley, a parish in Oxfordshire, on a Roman road, 3½ miles NNE of Bicester station on the L. & N.W.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Bicester. Acreage, 2308; population of the civil parish, 405; of the ecclesiastical, 346. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The site of a Roman villa and traces of a Roman road are still to be seen, and near the church are the foundations of an ancient castle. The kennels of the Bicester Hunt are here. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; gross value, £226 with residence. Patron, Christchurch, Oxford. The church is an ancient edifice of stone in mixed styles, consisting of chancel with aisles, nave, aisles, N and S porches, and an embattled western tower. It has some memorials of the Borlase and Woodward families.

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 Stratton Audley from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Stratton-Audley (St. Mary))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Stratton Audley 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.