Waterperry, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Waterperry, a parish, with Thornley hamlet, in Oxfordshire, 2 miles ENE of Wheatley station on the Maidenhead and Oxford branch of the G.W.R., and 7½ E of Oxford. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Wheatley, under Oxford. Acreage, 1936; population of civil parish, 164; of ecclesiastical, 182. The ecclesiastical parish includes Thornley township. The manor, with Waterperry House, a handsome mansion in the Classic style standing in a park of about 40 acres, and all the land, belongs to the Henley family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £103 with residence. The church, which stands within the park of Waterperry House, is an ancient and picturesque building in mixed styles, consisting of chancel, nave, S aisle, and an ivy-clad western tower of wood. It has some very ancient stained glass, an effigy of a knight in plate armour, dating from the early part of the 15th century, and some ancient brasses.

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 Waterperry from the following:

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