Highmore Oxfordshire Family History Guide

Highmore is a chapelry of Bix Ancient Parish and Rotherfield Greys Ancient Parish in Oxfordshire.

Alternative names: Highmoor

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: None
• Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

• Nuffield
• Stoke Row
• Nettlebed
• Rotherfield Greys
• Bix
• Rotherfield Peppard

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

HIGHMORE, a chapelry in Bix and Rotherfield-Greys parishes, Oxford; under the Chiltern hills, 4½ miles WNW of Henley-on-Thames r. station. It was constituted in 1860; and its post town is Nettlebed, under Henley-on-Thames. Pop., 333. Houses, 71. Pop. of the Rotherfield-Greys portion, 283. Houses, 60. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £101. Patron, the Rector of Rotherfield-Greys. The church was built in 1859, and is in the early English style. There is a national school.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

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: Binfield
• Province: Canterbury