Little Rollright, Oxfordshire Family History Guide

Little Rollright is an Ancient Parish in the county of Oxfordshire.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1754
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1721

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Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

ROLLRIGHT (Little), a parish in Chipping-Norton district, Oxford; adjacent to Warwickshire, 2½ miles NW of Chipping-Norton r. station. Post-town, Chipping-Norton. Acres, 780. Real property, £809. Pop., 36. Houses, 6. The manor belongs to Sir J. Reade, Bart. Part of a Druidical circle is here, originally comprising 60 stones, now comprising about 30, few of them rising more than 4 feet from the ground. A stone of singular shape, and about 8 feet high, is 252 feet N of the circle; bears the name of King Stone; and commands an extensive view. Five larger stones are about ½ a mile to the SE, and are supposed to have formed a kistvaen. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £190. Patron, Sir J. Reade, Bart. The church is Norman, and was recently repaired.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

ROLLRIGHT, LITTLE, a parish, in the union of Chipping-Norton, hundred of Chadlington, county of Oxford, 2¼ miles (N. W. by N.) from Chipping-Norton; containing 25 inhabitants, and comprising about 600 acres. The living is a discharged rectory, valued in the king’s books at £5. 6. 8.; net income, £130; patron, Sir John Reade, Bart. The church is a small edifice, with a tower built in 1617 by William Brower, Esq., lord of the manor. Within the parish, at the extreme verge of the county, are the Rollright Stones, supposed to be the remains of a Druidical temple; they are set up in the form of a circle, the diameter of which is thirty-five yards, and vary from five to seven feet in height. At the distance of about eighty yards, in Warwickshire, is a stone eight feet and a half high, seven feet broad, and twelve inches in thickness, called the King Stone; and about 300 yards from the circle are five stones called the Whispering Stones.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Oxfordshire, Little Rollright – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Little Rollright, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Oxfordshire, Little Rollright – Church records ( 1 )
Little Rollright St. Phillip Oxfordshire parish registers
Author: Wood, Vera; Church of England. Parish Church of Little Rollright (Oxfordshire)

Administration

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