Yarnton, Oxfordshire Family History Guide

Yarnton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Oxfordshire.

Other places in the parish include: Oxey Mead, Pixey Mead, West Mead.

Alternative names:

  • Eardington
  • Yardington
  • Yarington
  • Yearington

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1569
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1723

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

YARNTON, a parish, with a village and a r. station, in Woodstock district, Oxfordshire; on the West Midland railway, at the junction of the lines from Witney and from Bletchley, 4 miles NNW of Oxford. Post town, Kidlington, under Oxford. Acres, 1,613. Real property, £3,243. Pop., 294. Houses, 68. The manor belongs to Sir H. W. Dashwood, Bart. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value £290. Patrons, Sir H. W. Dashwood, Bart., three turns, and All Souls College, Oxford, one turn. The church is early English; and the churchyard contains a curious early English cross. Charities, £10.

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

Parish Registers

Yarnton Marriages 1659-1837

Oxfordshire parish registers. V2. – HathiTrust

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Oxfordshire, Yarnton – Cemeteries ( 1 )
St. Bartholomew’s churchyard, Yarnton
Author: Oxfordshire Family History Society

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

England, Oxfordshire, Yarnton – Church records ( 1 )
Marriages at Yarnton, 1569-1837
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Yarnton; Phillimore, W. P. W. (William Phillimore Watts), 1853-1913; Oldfield, W. J. (William John), b. 1857

England, Oxfordshire, Yarnton – History ( 1 )
Three Oxfordshire parishes : a history of Kidlington, Yarnton and Begbroke
Author: Stapleton, Bryan, Mrs.

Maps

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

Administration

  • County: Oxfordshire
  • Civil Registration District: Woodstock
  • Probate Court: Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and the Archdeaconry of Oxford
  • Diocese: Oxford
  • Rural Deanery: Woodstock
  • Poor Law Union: Woodstock
  • Hundred: Wootton
  • Province: Canterbury