Wardington, Oxfordshire Family History Guide

Wardington is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Oxfordshire, created in 1851 from a chapelry in Cropredy Ancient Parish.

Alternative names:

Parish church: St Mary Magdalene

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1603
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1605

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

• Bourton
• Prescote
• Chipping Warden, Northamptonshire
• Edgcote, Northamptonshire
• Chalcombe, Northamptonshire
• Thorpe Mandeville, Northamptonshire
• Cropredy

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WARDINGTON, a chapelry, with two hamlets, in Cropredy parish, Oxford; 1¾ mile ESE of Cropredy r. station. It has a post-office under Banbury. Acres, 2,600. Real property, £4,546. Pop. in 1851, 862; in 1861, 732. Houses, 183. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £135. Patron, the Bishop of O. The church is ancient but good. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a national school, and charities £8.

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

Parish Registers

Marriages Out of Parish

Details	Place of Marriage
John Harbidge, p. Wardington, co. Oxford, & Hannah Hirons, s., of F. C , lic. 4 Dec. 1800	Fenny Compton

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Oxfordshire, Wardington – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Wardington, 1841-1891 Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Oxfordshire, Wardington – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Banbury, 1606-1851 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Banbury (Oxfordshire)

Wardington Wesleyan Methodist, Oxfordshire, Banbury, Marlborough Road Circuit : register of baptisms, 1896-1961 Author: Wesleyan Methodist Church (Wardington, Oxfordshire); Wesleyan Methodist Church. Banbury Circuit; Wood, Vera; Oxfordshire Family History Society

Wardington, St. Mary Magdalene, Oxon, parish registers Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Wardington; Cooknell, James Wastle; Gibson, Jeremy Sumner Wycherly, 1934-; Harris, Colin G.; Oxfordshire Family History Society

England, Oxfordshire, Wardington – Probate records ( 1 )
The Peculiar Court of Banbury and Cropredy Author: Church of England. Peculiar Court (Banbury, Oxfordshire); Church of England. Peculiar Court (Cropredy, Oxford); EurekA Partnership

Maps

Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time

Administration

• County: Oxfordshire
• Civil Registration District: Banbury
• Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of Banbury, Court of the Peculiar of Aylesbury
• Diocese: Oxford
• Rural Deanery: Pre-1846 – None, Post-1845 – Deddington
• Poor Law Union: Banbury
• Hundred: Banbury
• Province: Canterbury