Wardington, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Wardington, a parish in Oxfordshire, on the borders of Northamptonshire, 2 miles from Cropredy station on the Oxford and Birmingham line of the G.W.R., and 4½ from Banbury. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office, under Banbury. Acreage, 2670; population of the civil parish, 658; of the ecclesiastical, 594. There is a parish council consisting of six members. The manor belongs to the Cartwright family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; gross value, £247, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford. The church, restored in 1887, is a small ancient building of stone chiefly of the Early English and Decorated periods, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, lady chapel, vestry, S porch, and a Perpendicular embattled western tower. There is a Wesleyan chapel.

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 Wardington from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Wardington 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.