Alvescot, Oxfordshire Family History Guide
Alvescot is an Ancient Parish in the county of Oxfordshire.
Alternative names:
- Allscot
- Allscott
- Alvescott
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1662
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1721
Nonconformists include: Particular Baptist, Primitive Methodist, and Society of Friends/Quaker.
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
ALVESCOTT, a parish in Witney district, Oxford; near the Cheltenham and Faringdon railway, 3½ miles WNW of Bampton. Post town, Bampton, under Faringdon. Acres, 2,690. Real property, £2,961. Pop., 407. Houses, 85. The property is subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £371. Patron, Rev. A. Neate. The church is cruciform, in early English, with plain Norman tower. There are a Baptist chapel, a free school, and charities £22.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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: Witney
- Probate Court: Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and the Archdeaconry of Oxford
- Diocese: Oxford
- Rural Deanery: Witney
- Poor Law Union: Witney
- Hundred: Bampton (Oxfordshire)
- Province: Canterbury