Shipton-on-Cherwell Oxfordshire Family History Guide

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Shipton-on-Cherwell is an Ancient Parish in the county of Oxfordshire.

Alternative names: Shipton upon Cherwell

Parish church: St. Mary

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1653
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1757

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

SHIPTON-UPON-CHERWELL, a. parish in Woodstock district, Oxford; on the Oxford and Birmingham railway, 2½ miles E by S of Woodstock. Post town, Kidlington, under Oxford. Acres, 1,220. Real property, £1,022. Pop., 131. Houses, 25. The manor, with S. House, belongs to the Duke of Marlborough. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £310. Patron, the Duke of Marlborough. The church is later English. There is a national school.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

SHIPTON-UPON-CHERWELL (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Woodstock, hundred of Wootton, county of Oxford, 2¼ miles (E.) from Woodstock; containing 123 inhabitants. This parish is bounded on the east by the river Cherwell, and intersected by the Oxford canal. It comprises by measurement 1062 acres, of which 305 are pasture, and the remainder arable. The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £11.9. 4½.; net income, £310; patron, William Turner, Esq., of Shipton House. The tithes were commuted for land in 1768. The church was rebuilt in 1832, at the cost of Mr. Turner, and is in the later English style.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Oxfordshire, Shipton-upon-Cherwell – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Shipton on Cherwell, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Oxfordshire, Shipton-upon-Cherwell – Church records ( 1 )
Shipton-upon-Cherwell Oxfordshire parish registers
Author: Goadby, F. R. L; Church of England. Parish Church of Shipton-upon-Cherwell (Oxfordshire)

Maps

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

Administration

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