Cumnor Berkshire Family History Guide
Cumnor is an Ancient Parish in the county of Berkshire.
Other places in the parish include: Hillend, Henwood, Hill End, Chilswell, Chawley, Whitley, Swinford, Stroud, Botley, and Bradley.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin: 1559
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
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Adjacent Parishes
- Eynsham, Oxfordshire
- North Hinksey
- Northmoor, Oxfordshire
- Sunningwell
- Wytham
- Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire
- Besselsleigh
- South Hinksey
- Cassington, Oxfordshire
- Appleton
- Seacourt
- Wootton
Parish History
Cumnor
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
CUMNOR, a village, a township, a parish, and a sub-district, in Abingdon district, Berks. The village stands on the brow of a hill, 2 miles E of the river Isis, and 3¾ WSW of Oxford; and has a post-office under Oxford, and an inn. The township includes the village.
The parish includes also the liberty of Chilswell, and the tythings of Bradley, Chawley, Henwood, Hill-End, Stroud, Swinford, Whitley, and part of Botley. Acres, 7, 730. Real property, £7, 096. Pop., 1, 021. Houses, 212. The property is divided among a few.
The manor belonged to Abingdon abbey; was given, at the dissolution, to the last abbot; and passed, in 1560, to Anthony Forster. The mansion on it was the scene of the murder of Amy Robsart, as related in Mickle’s ballad of “Cumnor,” and Sir Walter Scott’s novel of “Kenilworth;” but was really a low quadrangular edifice surrounding a small court, and not the spacious and towered structure depicted in these works; and it has entirely disappeared. The surface of the parish is hilly; and there is a mineral spring.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, not reported. Patron, the Earl of Abingdon. The church is partly Norman; consists of nave, north aisle, south chapel, and chancel, with a western tower; and contains an altar-tomb of Anthony Forster, and brasses. Charities, £81. John Drope, physician and poet, and Francis Drope, author of a work on fruit trees, were natives.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Bradley
Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850
Bradley in Cumnor, nr. Oxford. P. 7.
Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.
A Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland 1833
Bradley, co. Berks.
P. T. Abingdon (56) 5 m. NNW. Pop. 5. A tything in the parish of Cumnor in the hundred of Hormer.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland by John Gorton. The Irish and Welsh articles by G. N. Wright; Vol. I; London; Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand; 1833.
Chawley
Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870
Chawley, a tything in Cumnor parish, Berks; 2 ¼ miles SW of Oxford. Real property, £870.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851
Chawley, a tything in the parish of Cumnor, Berks; 3 miles south-west of Oxford. Pop., in 1801, 72; in 1831, 69. Houses 17. Other returns with the parish.
Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851.
Chilswell
Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870
Chilswell, a liberty in Cumnor parish, Berks; 3 ¼ miles WSW of Oxford. Pop., 12.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Whitley
The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851
Whitley, a tything in the parish of Cumnor, hund. of Hormer, union of Abingdon, county of Berks; 5 miles west by south of Oxford, east of the Isis. Acreage with the parish. Houses 6. Pop., in 1831, 38.
Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851.
Parish Records
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Maps
Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time
Administration
- County: Berkshire
- Civil Registration District: Abingdon
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Berkshire
- Diocese: Pre-1836 – Salisbury, Post-1835 – Oxford
- Rural Deanery: Abingdon
- Poor Law Union: Abingdon
- Hundred: Hormer
- Province: Canterbury