Cowley, Oxfordshire Family History Guide
Cowley is an Ancient Parish in the county of Oxfordshire.
Alternative names: Cowley St James
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1678
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1721
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
COWLEY, a parish in Headington district, Oxfordshire: adjacent to the river Thames and the Oxford railway, 2¼ miles SSE of Oxford. Post town, Oxford. Acres, 940. Real property, £4, 227. Pop., 1, 404. Houses, 256. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £64. Patron, Christ Church, Oxford. The church was recently restored.
The p. curacy of St. John, contiguous to Oxford, is a separate benefice; and a new church for it, in memory of Archbishop Langley, at a cost of about £17, 500, was proposed, in 1869, to be erected in the vicinity of Magdalen bridge.
There are a Wesleyan chapel, the diocesan school, and two other public schools.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Maps
Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time
Administration
- County: Oxfordshire
- Civil Registration District: Headington
- Probate Court: Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and the Archdeaconry of Oxford
- Diocese: Oxford
- Rural Deanery: Cuddesdon
- Poor Law Union: Headington
- Hundred: Bullingdon; Oxford Borough
- Province: Canterbury