Great Rollright, Oxfordshire Family History Guide
Great Rollright is an Ancient Parish in the county of Oxfordshire.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1560
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1667; 1722
Nonconformists include: Baptist and Particular Baptist.
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Adjacent Parishes
- Little Rollright
- Heythrop
- Chipping Norton
- Hook Norton
- Whichford, Warwickshire
- Swerford
- Long Compton, Warwickshire
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
ROLLRIGHT (Great), a village and a parish in Chipping-Norton district, Oxford. The village stands 3 miles N by E of Chipping-Norton r. station; was known at Domesday as Rollendri; and has a wall letter-box under Chipping-Norton. The parish comprises 2, 360 acres. Real property, £3, 478. Pop., 410. Houses, 93. The property is divided among a few.
The manor belongs to Brasenose College, Oxford. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £250. Patron, Brasenose College, Oxford.
The church is partly Norman, partly early English, all good: and contains a monument to Shepheard, the friend of Prior. There are two Baptist chapels, a national school, and charities £130.
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: 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