Shotover Oxfordshire Family History Guide
Shotover is an extra-parochial place.
Alternative names: Shotover Hill Place
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
SHOTOVER, an extra-parochial tract in Headington district, Oxfordshire; 1½ mile W of Wheatley r. station, and 4½ E of Oxford. Acres, 900. Real property, £1,668; of which £40 are in quarries. Pop., 157. Houses, 33. S. Park is the seat of G. Gammie, Esq. S. Hill was long a royal forest; was given to Dr. Strutt, physician to George III.; passed to the Drurys; was the scene of Queen Elizabeth’s meeting with the authorities of Oxford, on occasion of her visiting that city; was under charge of an ancestor of the poet Milton, in capacity of ranger; is associated with the event of Milton s first marriage, and with the residence of Mickle the translator of the “Lusiad;” possesses great interest for both botanists and geologists; rises to the height of 599 feet; and commands a fine view of Oxford.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
SHOTOVER, an extra-parochial liberty, in the union of Headington, hundred of Bullingdon, county of Oxford, 4¾ miles (E. by N.) from Oxford; containing 177 inhabitants, and consisting of 900 acres of land.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Oxfordshire
- Civil Registration District: Headington
- Probate Court: Search the courts of the surrounding parishes
- Diocese: Not Applicable
- Rural Deanery: Not Applicable
- Poor Law Union: Headington
- Hundred: Bullingdon
- Province: Canterbury