Tadmarton, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Tadmarton, a parish, with a village, in Oxfordshire, 4½ miles WSW of Banbury, and 3 from Bloxham station on the Banbury and Cheltenham branch of the G.W.R. It has a post office under Banbury; money order and telegraph office, Swalcliffe. Acreage, 2070; population, 320. There are an ancient camp and two tumuli, and Roman coins have been found. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £249 with residence. Patron, Worcester College, Oxford. The church, dedicated to St Nicholas, is an ancient edifice of stone in mixed styles, Norman, Early English, and Perpendicular, consisting of chancel, nave, N aisle, N porch, and an embattled western tower. It was restored at a cost of £1250 in 1893.

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 Tadmarton from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Tadmarton (St. Nicholas))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Tadmarton 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.