Ardley, Oxfordshire Family History Guide

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Ardley is an Ancient Parish in the county of Oxfordshire. Ardley parish was abolished in 1921 to help create Ardley with Fewcott Ecclesiastical Parish1.

Alternative names: Ardley with Fewcott

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1758
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1681

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Ardley Parish Registers

Baptisms

Ardley, Oxfordshire Baptisms 1684-1851

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

ARDLEY, a parish in Bicester district, Oxford; on the boundary ditch between Mercia and Wessex, 3½ miles ENE of Heyford r. station, and 4½ NW of Bicester. Post town, Fritwell under Bicester. Acres, 1,469. Real property, £1,728. Pop., 169. Houses, 36. The property is divided among a few. Foundations exist of a Norman castle, built in the reign of Stephen, on the site of Offa’s camp. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £307. Patron, the Duke of Marlborough. The church is good.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Maps

Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time

Administration

  • County: Oxfordshire
  • Civil Registration District: Bicester
  • Probate Court: Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and the Archdeaconry of Oxford
  • Diocese: Oxford
  • Rural Deanery: Bicester
  • Poor Law Union: Bicester
  • Hundred: Ploughley
  • Province: Canterbury

References

  1. F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991) ↩︎