Hook Norton Oxfordshire Family History Guide
Hook Norton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Oxfordshire.
Other places in the parish include: Southrope and Southrop.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1566
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1669; 1721
Nonconformists include: Baptist, Primitive Methodist, Society of Friends/Quaker, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
HOOK-NORTON, a village and a parish in Banbury district, Oxford. The village stands on a branch of the river Swere, 2 miles E of the boundary with Warwick, and 5 NE of Chipping-Norton r. station; and has a post-office under Chipping-Norton, and fairs on 29 June and 28 Nov. Florence of Worcester calls it Regia Villa, “a royal town or village.” The parish comprises 3, 730 acres. Real property, £8, 954. Pop. in 1851, 1, 496; in 1861, 1, 393. Houses, 329. The decrease of pop. was caused by emigration, and by the closing of a private lunatic asylum. The property is much subdivided.
The manor was given, by William the Conqueror, to Robert de Oily; and was held, in 1285, by Ela, Countess of Warwick, on the tenure of “carving before the king., and to have the knife with which she carved.” Remains of an ancient British camp are near Hook-Norton Lodge. A battle, between the Danes and the English, was fought at or very near Hook-Norton in 917.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £210. Patron, the Bishop of Oxford. The church is ancient but good; shows interesting features: has an imposing tower; underwent recent repair at great cost; and contains a curious font of the 12th century.
There are chapels for Baptists, Quakers, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists, national schools, and a British school.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
FamilySearch
Maps
Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time
Ordnance Survey Sheet SP 33 Hook Norton, Published 1959 – Wikimedia Commons
Administration
- County: Oxfordshire
- Civil Registration District: Banbury
- Probate Court: Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and the Archdeaconry of Oxford
- Diocese: Oxford
- Rural Deanery: Chipping Norton
- Poor Law Union: Banbury
- Hundred: Chadlington
- Province: Canterbury