Checkendon, Oxfordshire Family History Guide
Checkendon is an Ancient Parish in the county of Oxfordshire.
Alternative names: Chackendon, Checkington
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers:
- Bishop’s Transcripts:
Nonconformists include:
Table of Contents
Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
CHECKENDON, or Chakenden, a parish in Henley district, Oxford: under the Chiltern hills, 4½ miles E by S of Wallingford Road r. station, and 7½ W of Henley-on-Thames. It has a post-office under Henley-on-Thames. Acres, 3, 063. Real property, £2, 479. Pop., 357. Houses, 74. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £555. Patron, University College. Oxford. The church is Norman, was restored in 1869, and has some old brasses.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
FamilySearch
Maps
Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time
Administration
- County: Oxfordshire
- Civil Registration District: Henley
- Probate Court: Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and the Archdeaconry of Oxford
- Diocese: Oxford
- Rural Deanery: Henley
- Poor Law Union: Henley
- Hundred: Langtree
- Province: Canterbury