Hanwell Oxfordshire Family History Guide
Hanwell is an Ancient Parish in the county of Oxfordshire.
Alternative names: Drayton Hanwell
Parish church: St. Peter
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1586
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1721
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
HANWELL, a parish in Banbury district, Oxford; near the boundary with Warwick, the West Midland railway, and the Oxford canal, 2½ miles NW of Banbury. Acres, 1, 240. Real property, £2, 093. Pop., 285. Houses, 67. The manor, with all the property, belonged formerly to the Venuns, the Ardens, the Grevilles, the Copes, and the Sackvilles; and belongs now to Earl Delawarr. Hanwell Castle was called by Leland “the pleasant and gallant house of Hanwell;” was twice visited, in the time of Sir Anthony Cope, by James I. and his queen; and is now represented chiefly by a fine quadrangular brick tower, With stone quoins, used as a farm house. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £320. Patron, Earl Delawarr. The church is ancient but good, with a fine tower; and has some curious capitals, with grotesque figures.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
HANWELL (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Banbury, hundred of Bloxham, county of Oxford, 3 miles (N. N. W.) from Banbury; containing 297 inhabitants. This place is chiefly remarkable for its castle, supposed to have been built by Wm. Cope, of Banbury, cofferer to Henry VII., and noticed by Leland as the “gallant house of Hanwell.” It was a spacious quadrangular building, with massive towers at the angles, of which only one, with a portion of the south front, is at present remaining; it is now a farmhouse, containing in the parlour, dairy, and other parts, some curious arches. The parish comprises about 1400 acres; the soil is generally a reddish loam, the surface rather hilly, and the greater portion in pasture. The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £17. 16. 0½.; net income, £320; patron, Earl Delawarr, who is proprietor of the parish: the tithes were commuted for land and corn-rents in 1783; the glebe comprises 27 acres. The church is a fine edifice in the decorated English style, with a low embattled tower having an angular turret on the south; the font is Norman.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Oxfordshire
- Civil Registration District: Banbury
- Probate Court: Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and the Archdeaconry of Oxford
- Diocese: Oxford
- Rural Deanery: Deddington
- Poor Law Union: Banbury
- Hundred: Bloxham
- Province: Canterbury