Wheatfield, Oxfordshire
Historical Description
Wheatfield, a village and a parish in Oxfordshire, 4½ miles SSW of Thame station on the G.W.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Tetsworth. Acreage, 740; population of the civil parish, 80; of the ecclesiastical, 88. The manor belongs to the Spencers. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £194 with residence. The church, which is a very small building of flint, contains some memorials of the Rudge family.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Oxfordshire | |
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 Wheatfield from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Wheatfield)
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Oxfordshire is available online
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.