Oxhill Warwickshire Family History Guide

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Oxhill is an Ancient Parish in the county of Warwickshire.

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1568
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1605

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Oxhill Parish Registers

These records, which span both Warwickshire and Worcestershire archives, include digitized records of baptisms, marriages, banns, and burials including images and indexed transcriptions.

Oxhill, Worcestershire Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812

Oxhill, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1812-1922

Oxhill, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1947

Oxhill, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1997

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

OXHILL, a village and a parish in Shipston-on-Stour district, Warwick. The village stands on an affluent of the river Stour, 2½ miles WNW of the boundary with Oxfordshire, 3 ESE of the Fosse way, 4¼ SSW of Kineton, and 9½ S E of Stratford-on-Avon r. station.

The parish comprises 1,668 acres. Post-town, Kineton, under Warwick. Real property, £2,527. Pop., 373. Houses, 91. The property is much subdivided. The parish is a meet for the Warwickshire hounds. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £354. Patron, W. D. Bromley Davenport, Esq. The church is Norman, with a low tower; and the chancel was recently restored. There are a Wesleyan chapel and a free school.

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

Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850

Oxhill, 3½ m. S.W. Kineton. P. 348.

Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

  • County: Warwickshire
  • Civil Registration District: Shipston on Stour
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Worcester (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Worcester
  • Rural Deanery: Kineton
  • Poor Law Union: Shipston on Stour
  • Hundred: Kington
  • Province: Canterbury