Somerton, Oxfordshire Family History Guide
Somerton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Oxfordshire.
Alternative names: Summerton
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1627
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1700; 1721
Nonconformists include: Roman Catholic
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
SOMERTON, a parish, with a r. station, in Bicester district, Oxford; on the Oxford and Birmingham railway, 3 miles SE of Deddington. Post town, Deddington, under Oxford. Acres, 2,140. Real property, £2,956. Pop., 335. Houses, 74. The manor belonged formerly to the Arsics, the Greys, the D’Eyncourts, and others; and belongs now to the Earl of Jersey. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £320. Patron, the Rev. W. H. Price. The church is ancient but good. There are endowed schools. Archbishop Juxon was rector.
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: Bicester
- Probate Court: Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and the Archdeaconry of Oxford
- Diocese: Oxford
- Rural Deanery: Bicester
- Poor Law Union: Bicester
- Hundred: Ploughley
- Province: Canterbury