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Places in Oxfordshire
This page lists the major place names of Oxfordshire. The list is
based on the current boundary of the county so it includes many places
that were in Berkshire until the 1974 reorganisation. Please let me (see
the foot of this page) know of any errors you find.
The list does not show every tiny hamlet. If, for
whatever reason, your ancestral home has not made it into the list I
will willingly add it just as long as you provide me with a
description of the place (then or now but say which!). Offers of
descriptive texts for the places already in this list will be most
welcome too.
- Abingdon
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Adderbury
- Adwell
- Albury
- Alkerton
- Alvescot
- Ambrosden
- Appleford
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Appleton
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Ardington
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Ardley
- Arncott
- Ascott under Wychwood
- Ashbury
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Asthall
- Asthall Leigh
- Aston
- Aston Rowant
- Aston Tirrold
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Aston Upthorp
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Balscote
- Bampton
- Banbury
- Barford St John
- Barford St Michael
- Baulking
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Beckley
- Begbroke
- Benson
- Berinsfield
- Berrick Salome
- Besselsleigh
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Bicester
- Binfield Heath (own Parish Council from 1 April 2003)
- Binsey
- Bix
- Black Bourton
- Blackthorn
- Bladon
- Blenheim
- Bletchingdon
- Blewbury
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Bloxham
- Bodicote
- Bourton (near Cropredy)
- Bourton
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Brighthampton
- Brightwell Baldwin
- Brightwell cum Sotwell
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Britwell Prior
- Britwell Salome
- Brize Norton
- Broadwell
- Broughton
- Broughton Poggs
- Bruern
- Buckland
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Bucknell
- Burcot
- Burford
- Buscot
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Carterton
- Cassington
- Caversfield
(in Buckinghamshire until 1844)
- Caversham
(in Berkshire since 1911)
- Chadlington
- Chalgrove
- Charlbury
- Charlton on Otmoor
- Charney Bassett
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Chastleton
- Checkendon
- Chesterton
- Childrey
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Chilson
- Chilton
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Chinnor
- Chipping Norton
- Chislehampton
- Cholsey
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Church Enstone
- Church Hanborough
- Churchill
- Clanfield
- Clattercot
- Claydon
- Clifton Hampden
- Cogges
- Coleshill
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Combe
- Compton Beauchamp
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Cornbury
- Cornwell
- Cottisford
- Cowley
- Crawley
- Cropredy
- Crowell
- Crowmarsh Gifford
- Cuddesdon
- Culham
- Cumnor
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Curbridge
- Cutteslowe
- Cuxham
- Deddington
- Denchworth
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Denton
- Didcot
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Dorchester
- Drayton (the one west of Banbury)
- Drayton (the one south of Abingdon)
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Drayton St Leonard
- Dry Sandford
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Ducklington
- Dunsden
- Duns Tew
- Easington
- East Challow
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- East Garston
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- East Hagbourne
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- East Hanney
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- East Hendred
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Eaton Hastings
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Elsfield
- Emmington
- Enstone
- Epwell
- Ewelme
- Eye and Dunsden
- Eynsham
- Faringdon
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Fawler (near Charlbury)
- Fawler (near Kingston Lisle)
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Fencott
- Fernham
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Fewcott
- Field Assarts
- Fifield
- Filkins
- Finmere
- Finstock
- Forest Hill
- Freeland
- Frilford
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Fringford
- Fritwell
- Fulbrook
- Fyfield
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Garford
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Garsington
- Glympton
- Godington
- Goosey
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Goring
- Gosford
- Grafton
- Great Bourton
- Great Coxwell
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Great Haseley
- Great Milton
- Great Rollright
- Great Tew
- Grimsbury
(in Northamptonshire until 1894)
- Grove
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Hagbourne
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Hailey
- Hampton Gay
- Hampton Poyle
- Hanborough
- Hanwell
- Hardwick (the one north of Bicester)
- Hardwick (the one south of Witney)
- Harpsden
- Harwell
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Hatford
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Headington
- Hempton
- Henley on Thames
- Hensington
- Hethe
- Heythrop
- Hinton Waldrist
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Holton
- Holwell
- Hook Norton
- Horley
- Hornton
- Horspath
- Horton cum Studley
- Ibstone
(in Buckinghamshire since 1896)
- Ickford
(in Buckinghamshire since 1886)
- Idbury
- Iffley
- Ipsden
- Islip
- Kelmscot
- Kencot
- Kennington
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Kiddington
- Kidlington
- Kidmore End
- Kingham
- Kingsey
(in Buckinghamshire since 1933)
- Kingston Bagpuize
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Kingston Lisle
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Kirtlington
- Langford
(in Berkshire until 1844)
- Langley
- Launton
- Leafield
- Letcombe Bassett
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Letcombe Regis
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Lew
- Lewknor
- Lillingstone Lovell
(in Buckinghamsgire since 1844)
- Littlemore
- Little Coxwell
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Little Faringdon
- Little Milton
- Little Rollright
- Little Tew
- Littleworth
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Little Wittenham
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Lockinge
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Long Hanborough
- Long Wittenham
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Longcot
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Longworth
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Lower Heyford
- Lyford
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Lyneham
- Mapledurham
- Marcham
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Marsh Baldon
- Marston
- Merton
- Middle Aston
- Middle Barton
- Middleton Stoney
- Milcombe
- Milton (the one west of Didcot)
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Milton (the one south of Banbury)
- Milton under Wychwood
- Minster Lovell
- Mixbury
- Mollington
- Mongewell
- Moulsford
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Murcott
- Neat Enstone
- Neithrop
- Nether Worton
- Nettlebed
- Newington
- Newnham Murren
- Newton Purcell
- Noke
- North Aston
- North Hinksey
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Northleigh
- North Moreton
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- North Newington
- North Stoke
- Northmoor
- Nuffield
- Nuneham Courtenay
- Oddington
- Over Norton
- Over Worton
- Oxford
- Piddington
- Pishill
- Pusey
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Pyrton
- Radcot
- Radley
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Ramsden
- Risinghurst
- Rotherfield Greys
- Rotherfield Peppard
- Rousham
- Salford
- Sandford St Martin
- Sandford on Thames
- Sarsden
- Shellingford
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Shelswell
- Shenington
(in Gloucestershire until 1844)
- Shifford
- Shilton
(in Berkshire until 1844)
- Shiplake
- Shippon
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Shipton on Cherwell
- Shipton under Wychwood
- Shirburn
- Shorthampton
- Shrivenham
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Shutford
- Sibford Ferris
- Sibford Gower
- Shotover
- Somerton
- Sonning Common
- Sotwell
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Souldern
- South Hinksey
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- South Leigh
- South Moreton
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- South Newington
- South Stoke
- South Weston
- Sparsholt
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Spelsbury
- Stadhampton
- Standlake
- Stanford in the Vale
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Stanton Harcourt
- Stanton St John
- Steeple Aston
- Steeple Barton
- Steventon
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Stoke Lyne
- Stoke Row
- Stoke Talmage
- Stokenchurch
(in Buckinghamshire since 1896)
- Stonesfield
- Stonor
- Stowood
- Stratton Audley
- Summertown
- Sunningwell
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Sutton Courtenay
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Swalcliffe
- Swerford
- Swinbrook
- Swyncombe
- Sydenham
- Tackley
- Tadmarton
- Taynton
- Tetsworth
- Thame
- Thomley
- Thrup
- Tiddington
- Toot Baldon
- Towersey
(in Buckinghamshire until 1933)
- Tubney
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Tusmore
- Uffington
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Upper Arncott
- Upper Heyford
- Upton
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Upton and Signet
- Wallingford
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Wantage
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Warborough
- Wardington
- Warpsgrove
- Watchfield
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Water Eaton
- Waterperry
- Waterstock
- Watlington
- Wendlebury
- Westcote Barton
- West Challow
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- West Hagbourne
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- West Hanney
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- West Hendred
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- West Ilsley
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Weston on the Green
- Westwell
- Wheatfield
- Wheatley
- Whitchurch
- Widford
(in Gloucestershire until 1844)
- Wigginton
- Wilcote
- Witney
- Wolvercote
- Woodcote
- Wood Eaton
- Woodperry
- Woodstock
- Woolstone
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Wootton (the one north of Woodstock)
- Wootton (the one north of Abingdon)
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Wroxton
- Wytham
(in Berkshire until 1974)
- Yarnton
- Yelford
Places never in Oxfordshire, but with a link to the county
These places have never been in Oxfordshire, but have a relevant link to the
county, usually though some anomaly of ecclesiastical jurisdiction.
- Daylesford, Gloucestershire - in the archdeaconry of Oxford since 1919
- Kings Sutton, Northamptonshire - in the Peculiar of Banbury until 1846
- Little Compton, Warwockshire - in the archdeaconry of Oxford since 1919
- Remenham, Berkshire - in the archdeconry of Oxford since 1974
- Sonning, Berkshire - part of the extensive parish of Sonning lies in Oxfordshire
Some alternative names for Oxfordshire places
Some names (or alternative spellings) that may cause confusion -
the standard modern name or spelling follows.
- Bixbrand, Bixgwbbyn - Bix
- Bradwell - Broadwell
- Burton Abbots - Black Bourton
- Ensham - Eynsham
- Field Town - Leafield
- Greys - Rotherfield Greys
- Handborough - Hanborough
- Heyford at Bridge, Heyford ad Pontem - Lower Heyford
- Heyford Warren - Upper Heyford
- Long Combe - Combe
- Stadham - Stadhampton
- Tuffield - Nuffield
- Yardington - Yarnton
- Yeffley, Yiftley - Iffley
Ancient parishes in and about the City of Oxford
The full name of these parishes would be something like "Oxford St Giles",
but they may occur as if they were the name of an independent place.
- All Saints
- Holywell
- St Aldate
- St Clement
- St Cross
- St Ebbe
- St Giles
- St John the Baptist
- St Martin
- St Mary Magdalen
- St Mary the Virgin
- St Michael
- St Peter in the East
- St Peter le Bailey
- St Thomas
This page last updated
2006-12-16
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GENUKI and
Malcolm Austen,
Oxford University
Computing Services
With thanks to Paul Betteridge for many additions and corrections to the original.