Wigginton, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Wigginton, a parish, with a village, in Oxfordshire, on the river Swere, 6½ miles SW of Banbury, and 2 E from Hook Norton station on the Banbury and Cheltenham branch of the G.W.R. It has a post office under Banbury; money order and telegraph office, Hook Norton. Acreage, 1187; population, 245. There is a parish council consisting of five members. Extensive Roman remains, including a semi-octagonal chamber 20 feet by 14, with tessellated pavement, and another apartment 20 feet by 17¼, were discovered in 1824. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £340 with residence. Patron, Jesus College, Oxford. The church is a plain edifice of stone chiefly of the Early English period. It contains some ancient tombs and monuments. It was restored in 1870 and 1886. 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.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Wigginton from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Wigginton 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.