South Newington, Oxfordshire Family History Guide
South Newington is an Ancient Parish in the county of Oxfordshire.
Alternative names: South Newnton
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1538
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1669; 1721
Nonconformists include: Society of Friends/Quaker and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
NEWINGTON (South), a village and a parish in Banbury district, Oxford. The village stands on the river Swere, 4 miles WNW of Deddington, and 6¼ W by N of Aynho r. station; and has a post-office under Banbury. The parish comprises 1, 460 acres. Real property, £3, 188. Pop., 400. Houses, 93. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs to the Earl of Shrewsbury. The living is a vicarage in-the diocese of Oxford. Value, £250. Patron, Exeter College, Oxford. The church stands on an eminence; shows features of Norman, early English, decorated, and perpendicular architecture; and is a good and handsome edifice, with a tower. There are a Wesleyan chapel and a national school.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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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: Wootton
- Province: Canterbury