Culham, Berkshire Family History Guide
Culham is an Ancient Parish partly in Berkshire and partly in Oxfordshire.
Other places in the parish include: Otney Mead.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1648
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1721
Nonconformists include:
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Adjacent Parishes
- Radley
- Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire
- Nuneham Courtenay, Oxfordshire
- Abingdon St Helen with St Nicholas
- Appleford
- Dorchester, Oxfordshire
- Sutton Courtenay
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
CULHAM, a parish in the district of Abingdon, and counties of Oxford and Berks; on the river Thames, adjacent to the Oxford railway, 1½ mile S by E of Abingdon. It has a station on the railway; and its post town is Abingdon. Acres, 1,680; of which about 40 are in Berks. Real property, £3,656. Pop., 474. Houses, 93. The property is all in one estate.
The manor belonged to Abingdon abbey; and an old seat on it, converted into a farm-house, was a residence of the abbots. Culham college, built in 1853, at a cost of nearly £20,000, is a training school for schoolmasters of the dioceses of Oxford and Gloucester, and contains accommodation for 130 students. A bridge on the Thames here was built in 1416 by Geoffrey Barbour.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £100. Patron, the Bishop of Oxford. The church was mainly rebuilt in 1852, in the early English style; but retains a chancel and tower of 1712. Charities, £41.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Berkshire; Oxfordshire
- Civil Registration District: Abingdon
- Probate Court: Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and the Archdeaconry of Oxford
- Diocese: Oxford
- Rural Deanery: Cuddesdon
- Poor Law Union: Abingdon
- Hundred: Dorchester
- Province: Canterbury