Goring, Oxfordshire Family History Guide
Goring is an Ancient Parish in the county of Oxfordshire.
Other places in the parish include: Goring Heath.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
Goring
- Parish registers: 1643
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1639; 1682-1684; 1722
Goring Heath
- Parish registers: 1742
- Bishop’s Transcripts: None
Nonconformists include: Countess of Huntingdon Methodist and Particular Baptist.
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
GORING, a village and a parish in the district of Bradfield and county of Oxford. The village stands at the verge of the county, on the river Thames and the Great Western railway, near Icknield-street, 6 miles S of Wallingford; is connected, by a bridge, with Streatley, in Berks; presents a picturesque appearance; has a station with telegraph on the railway, and a post-office, under Reading; and was formerly called Little Nottingham. The parish comprises 4, 377 acres. Real property, £5, 362. Pop., 947. Houses, 222. Roman coins, vases, pavements, and substructions have been found. A mineral spring here was formerly in high repute for cutaneous diseases. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £146. Patron, S. W. Gardiner, Esq. The church is very curious, and partly Norman; and has an embattled tower, with a conical topped round turret. An Augustinian nunnery once stood adjacent to the church; was founded in the time of Henry II.; and was given to Sir T. Pope, the founder of Trinity College, Oxford. There are a Lady Huntingdon’s chapel, Lybbe’s alms-houses with £62, Allnutt’s charity for various purposes with £1, 082, and other charities with £20.
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: Bradfield
- Probate Court: Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and the Archdeaconry of Oxford
- Diocese: Oxford
- Rural Deanery: Henley
- Poor Law Union: Bradfield
- Hundred: Langtree
- Province: Canterbury