Claydon with Mollington Warwickshire Family History Guide
Claydon with Mollington is an Ecclesiastical Parish partly in Oxfordshire and partly in Warwickshire; Created in 1851 from Claydon chapelry (Oxfordshire) and Mollington chapelry (Oxfordshire) in Cropredy Ancient Parish.
Alternative names: Claydon
Other places in the parish include: Mollington.
Parish church: St. James, All Saints
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1569
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1605-1617; 1663
Separate registers exist for Mollington:
- Parish registers: 1562
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1664
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
Claydon
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
CLAYDON, a chapelry in Cropredy parish, Oxford; on the Oxford canal and the Oxford and Rugby railway, at the northern apex of the county, 2½ miles N by W of Cropredy r. station, and 6½ N of Banbury. Post town, Cropredy, under Banbury. Acres, 1,160. Real property, £2, 349. Pop., 317. Houses, 76. Blue has rocks are here, with fossils. Claydon Wood is a resort of sportsmen. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £125. Patron, the Bishop of Oxford. The church is ancient; and there is a Primitive Methodist chapel.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
CLAYDON, a chapelry, in the parish of Cropredy, union and hundred of Banbury, county of Oxford, 6½ miles (N.) from Banbury; containing 337 inhabitants. The chapel is dedicated to St. James, and is a small edifice, with a north aisle divided from the nave by four arches of Norman character; the tower is of the 15th century.
The village is situated in the northern extremity of the county: a small spring which rises in it has the peculiarity of emitting the largest quantity of water in the driest weather. Here is found the pyrites aureus, or golden firestone; also the asteria, or star-stone, called by Gesner sigillum stellœ, from its use in sealing: in splitting some of these, the figure of a rose is plainly discernible.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Mollington
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
MOLLINGTON, a chapelry in the parish of Cropredy and counties of Oxford and Warwick; 1 ¾ mile NW of Cropredy r. station, and 4¾ N by W of Banbury. Post-town, Cropredy, under Banbury. Acres of the Oxford portion, 1,200. Real property, £2,377. Pop., 234. Houses, 53. Acres of the Warwick portion, 620. Pop., 138. Houses, 34.
The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £120. Patron, the Bishop of Oxford. The church is early English; comprises N aisle and chancel, with a tower; and was recently restored. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel, an apprenticing fund, and a small charity.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
MOLLINGTON, a chapelry, in the parish of Cropredy, union of Banbury, partly in the hundred of Bloxham, county of Oxford, and partly in the Burton-Dassett division of the hundred of Kington, S. division of the county of Warwick, 4¾ miles (N. by W.) from Banbury; containing 385 inhabitants. The Warwickshire portion contains 684 acres.
The chapel is dedicated to All Saints, and now consists of a nave and chancel only, a north aisle having been taken down in 1786, and the space between the pillars built up; the font is semi-Norman.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Registers
Marriages Out of Parish
| Details | Place of Marriage |
|---|---|
| Thomas Pettifer, p. Mollington, & Margret Martin 22 Oct. 1639 | Fenny Compton |
| Thomas Fellows, p. Cleydon, & Hannah Baseley, of F. C. 30 Oct. 1742 | Fenny Compton |
| William Parish, p. Mollington, co. Warwick, b., & Anne Payne, of F. C, s., lic. 15 Oct. 1804 | Fenny Compton |
Parish Records
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Claydon
Mollington
Maps
Vision of Britain historical maps
Administration
- County: Warwickshire
- Civil Registration District: Banbury
- Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of Banbury, Court of the Peculiar of Aylesbury
- Diocese: Oxford
- Rural Deanery: Deddington
- Poor Law Union: Banbury
- Hundred: Kington
- Province: Canterbury