Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire Family History Guide
Stanton Harcourt is an Ancient Parish in the county of Oxfordshire. South Leigh is a chapelry of Stanton Harcourt.
Other places in the parish include: Sutton.
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Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1567
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1721
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
STANTON-HARCOURT, a parish, with a village and two hamlets, in Witney district, Oxford; 2 miles SSE of South Leigh r. station, and 4¾ SE of Witney. It has a post-office under Witney. Acres, 3,120. Real property, £4,961. Pop., 661. Houses, 141. The manor has belonged, for six centuries, to the Harcourts. The manor house, of the 15th century, was the place where Pope finished his translation of the 5th book of Homer; and is now represented by interesting remains at a farm. Three stones, called Devil’s Quoits, said to be commemorative of a battle in 614, are near the village. The living is a vicarage, united with South Leigh, in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £136. Patron, the Bishop of O. The church is ancient, cruciform, and good. There are an endowed school with £19 a year, and charities £15.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Registers
Stanton Harcourt Marriages 1653-1837
Oxfordshire parish registers. V2. – HathiTrust
Parish Records
FamilySearch
Maps
Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time
Administration
- County: Oxfordshire
- Civil Registration District: Witney
- Probate Court: Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and the Archdeaconry of Oxford
- Diocese: Oxford
- Rural Deanery: Woodstock
- Poor Law Union: Witney
- Hundred: Wootton
- Province: Canterbury