Swerford Oxfordshire Family History Guide
Swerford is an Ancient Parish in the county of Oxfordshire.
Alternative names: Showell, Swarford, Swerford with Showell
Parish church: St. Mary
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1577
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1670; 1722
Nonconformists include: Baptist
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
SWERFORD, a parish, with a village, in Chipping-Norton district, Oxford; on the river Swere, 5 miles NE of Chipping-Norton r. station. It has a postal wall-box under Enstone. Acres, 4,630. Real property, £3,088. Pop., 402. Houses, 95. The manor belongs to R. Davis, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £496. Patron, Magdalen College, Oxford. The church is good, and has a spire.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
SWERFORD (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Chipping-Norton, hundred of Chadlington, county of Oxford, 5 miles (N. E. by E.) from Chipping-Norton; containing 430 inhabitants. It comprises 1063a. 3r. 34p., of which about three-fifths are arable, and the rest pasture. The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £15. 7. 1.; net income, £496; patrons, the President and Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford. The tithes were commuted for land and a money payment in 1802. On a hill north of the church, called Castle Hill, are some remains indicating the former existence of military works.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Records
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Maps
Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time
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