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Part of a national project begun in 1899, the Victoria County History (V.C.H.) is an ambitious project to record the country’s history parish by parish. The first Oxfordshire volume was published in 1907 and this CD-ROM contains extracts from the Standlake chapter in volume 13, Bampton Hundred Part One (1996). You can consult complete sets of the Oxfordshire and Berkshire V.C.H. at the Centre for Oxfordshire Studies and Oxfordshire Archives, and branch libraries stock the relevant local volumes.

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This CD-ROM includes transcripts of the census enumerator’s returns for Standlake for 1851 and 1881, the only two censuses that are currently available in electronic form. A national census has been held every ten years since 1801 (except 1941) and detailed returns survive from 1841. You can see microfiche copies of the Standlake census returns (1841-1891) at the Centre for Oxfordshire Studies, Oxfordshire Archives and Witney Library. The 1901 census returns will be made available in 2002.


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This CD-ROM includes records of Standlake baptisms, marriages and burials from 1800 to 1900 taken from modern transcripts of the original parish registers. You can see the full transcripts covering the years 1559 to 1959 in Oxfordshire Archives and in the Centre for Oxfordshire Studies. The original registers (baptisms, 1559-1961; marriages, 1559-1844; burials, 1559-1954) and other parish records are deposited in Oxfordshire Archives.


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This CD-ROM is the result of a Millennium Festival award from the Heritage Lottery Fund to the Oxfordshire Local History Association. The award has funded the creation of Parish Packages of heritage information for six Oxfordshire communities. The project managed on a day to day basis by staff of Oxfordshire County Council, Cultural Services, explores new ways of looking at local history, giving access to a wide range of sources from both public and private collections. This CD-ROM has been produced in small quantities for use in Oxfordshire County Council libraries, museums and at relevant schools, parish councils, and local societies. The Parish Package project is entirely non profit-making. The CD-ROM is not available commercially.

The parishes selected for this project are:

CartertonCowleyEast and West HanneyNeithrop (in Banbury)StandlakeThame

Each CD-ROM will typically include extracts from the following historical sources:

l Parish Registers l Photographs from County Collections, local groups & individualsl Original historical documentsl Listed building informationl Mapsl Newspapers l Publications – books, articles, periodicals, and pamphletsl Directories l Census returnsl Oral history tapesl Information from Local History Societies and individuals l Private collectionsl Museum objects

This is a broad and diverse range of historical sources but it only represents an introduction to the resources that are available for local history research. The CD-ROM includes a directory of sources for anyone who wants to study the parish in greater depth. For further advice or information please contact the Centre for Oxfordshire Studies (see Major Contributors section).

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Acknowledgements lThis CD-ROM has been prepared under the overall guidance of the Parish Packages Steering Committee. Membership of the committee was as follows:

Brian Atkins, Chairman of the Oxfordshire Local History AssociationBilham Woods, Treasurer of the Oxfordshire Local History AssociationMalcolm Graham, Head of Oxfordshire Studies, Oxfordshire County CouncilRosa Botterill, ICT Projects Officer, Oxfordshire County Council (to 9.1999)Simon Townley, Editor, Victoria History of OxfordshireSteven Tomlinson, Department of Western Manuscripts, Bodleian LibraryCarl Boardman, County Archivist, Oxfordshire County CouncilStuart Copeman, Science Advisor, Oxfordshire County CouncilChris Day, Oxford University Department for Continuing EducationChris Wise, Content Creation Assistant, Oxfordshire County Council (from 10.1999)Michele Gilbert, Content Creation Assistant, Oxfordshire County Council (from 10.1999)

Malcolm Graham the project leader, was responsible for the final choice of material and Simon Townley supplied the Directory of Sources on the CD-ROM. Mary Hodges provided many useful ideas and suggestions in the early stages of the project.

Maureen Nicholas, Chairman of Standlake and District Historical Society, and the other members of the society were very helpful not only in supplying material for the CD-ROM but also in providing crucial local guidence and enthusiasm for the project.

Rosa Botterill helped to establish the project on a sound technical footing and managed to rein in the enthusiasm of historians who wanted to include every conceivable source on the CD-ROM. Particularly since Rosa’s departure in September 1999, Stephen Rench of the Centre for Oxfordshire Studies has been a tower of strength in solving technical problems in the digitisation suite. Michele Gilbert worked part-time on content creation for the project from August 1999 and she and Chris Wise were appointed as full-time Content Creation Assistants from October 1999. They enthusiastically took on a steep learning curve and have been heavily involved in the digitisation of source material, in the preparation of spreadsheets and in the inputting of data that was suitable for scanning; they have also undertaken some research and have contributed introductory texts and guidance notes.

Chris Jennings, Senior Lecturer in Electronic Media at Oxford Brookes University, has proved equal to the challenge of creating the CD-ROM on a limited budget and has incorporated many features to make it as use-friendly as possible. He has produced this CD-ROM using Adobe InDesign and Adobe Acrobat.

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Credits lOxfordshire Local History Association and Oxfordshire County Council would like to thank the following organisations and individuals for their kind permission to reproduce material relating to the Parish Packages.

BBC Thames Valley, David Clargo, Programme Organiser, for permission to use BBC Radio Oxford recordings held by Oxfordshire County Council.

Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, for permission to reproduce Buckler drawings in the Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.

Data Archive, Historical Data Services, and Cressida Chappell, for supplying extracts from the 1881 census in electronic form.

English Heritage copyright material is reproduced by permission of English Heritage

Genealogical Society of Utah, Federation of Family History Societies, 1881 Census for England and Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man *computer file*. Colchester, Essex: The Data Archive *distributor*, 29 July 1997. SN: 3643.

Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, for permission to reproduce listed buildings data.

Newsquest (Oxfordshire) Ltd, David Wynne-Jones, Editor of the Witney Gazette, for permission to reproduce articles from the newspaper.

Ordnance Survey, Copyright Licensing, for permission to use extracts from the current 1: 10000 plan.

Oxfordshire Family History Society and Dr. Hugh Kearsey, for providing a transcript of the 1851 census in electronic form and for permission to reproduce it.

Oxfordshire Record Society, Bodleian Library, Oxford, and Steven Tomlinson, Hon. Secretary, for permission to reproduce extracts from their publications.

Public Record Office, for permission to reproduce extracts from the 1851 census (H.O.107/1731/194-212) and 1881 census (R.G.11/1514/131-149).

Reed Business Information Ltd, for permission to reproduce extracts from Kelly’s Directories.

Mrs Ann Spokes Symonds, Oxford, for permission to reproduce photographs taken by her father Mr. Peter Spokes.

Standlake and District Historical Society, in particular Maureen Nicholas, for providing so much support for the project and for permission to use photographs, text and publications.

Victoria County History Of The Counties of England, and Dr. C.R.J. Currie, General Editor, for permission to use extracts from the Victoria County History of Oxfordshire Vol. 13, pages 171 – 205.

W S Atkins Consultants Ltd, Property Design, Oxford, for providing photographs of the Standlake Museums Store

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CENTRE FOR OXFORDSHIRE STUDIES

The Centre for Oxfordshire Studies was established in 1991 to bring together a wide range of local studies and family resources. It incorporates the County Local Studies Library, a major Family History Centre, important collections of maps and oral history tapes, the Oxfordshire Photographic Archive (OPA), and the Oxfordshire Sites and Monuments Record (SMR). For further information please ask for any of the following leaflets: Users guide - Centre for Oxfordshire Studies, Oral History, Using Oxfordshire Maps, Studying Oxfordshire Today, Your House - How to Trace its History, Using Oxfordshire Photographic Archive, and Using Oxfordshire Maps. l Address: Central Library, Westgate, Oxford OX1 1DJl Telephone: General inquiries 01865 – 815749l Fax: 01865 – 810187l Email: [email protected] Admission: Free (booking advisable for microfilm readers)l Disabled Access: Yesl Open: Monday 9.15am – 5.00pm Tuesday 9.15am – 7.00pm Wednesday CLOSED Thursday 9.15am – 7.00pm Friday 9.15am – 5.00pm

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OXFORDSHIRE PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVE

The Oxfordshire Photographic Archive (OPA) in the Centre for Oxfordshire Studies, holds around 250,000 images from the 1850’s to the present day. You can see photographs of people, places and events in Oxford, Oxfordshire and surrounding counties. The OPA holds large collections by the Oxford photographer Henry Taunt (1842 – 1922) and Frank Packer of Chipping Norton (1876 – 1967). Public access is through microfiche or laser copies of the original images and a digitisation programme is now under way. You can buy copies of most of our photographs; for order forms and current price lists please ring the OPA. For further information please ask for our leaflets Oxfordshire Photographic Archive and Using Oxfordshire Photographic Archive.

l Address: same as for the Centre for Oxfordshire Studiesl Telephone: 01865 – 815432l Fax: 01865 - 810187l Email: [email protected] Admission: Free (appointment advisable)l Disabled Access: Yes

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OXFORDSHIRE SITES AND MONUMENTS RECORD

The Oxfordshire Sites and Monuments Record (SMR) is housed in the Centre for Oxfordshire Studies which contains a large number of publications introducing the county’s exceptionally rich and varied archaeology. The SMR is a map-based database, that was the first of its kind when it was set up by the County Museum Service in the 1960’s. There are over 12,000 Primary Records covering everything from Stone Age axes to old brickworks, from stone circles to deserted medieval villages. You can obtain information about scheduled ancient monuments and listed buildings or you can view our extensive collection of aerial photographs.

The SMR is used by County Archaeological Services in its daily conservation work within the planning system and it plays a key role in protecting the archaeology and historic landscape of Oxfordshire. The information held by the SMR is sometimes of a confidential nature and it is advisable to make an appointment before you come. The SMR is closed to the public on Wednesday and Saturday.

l Address: same as for the Centre for Oxfordshire Studiesl Telephone: 01865 – 810825l Fax: 01865 – 810187l Email: [email protected] Admission: Free (appointment advisable)l Disabled Access: Yes


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OXFORDSHIRE ARCHIVES

The Oxfordshire Archives holds the original written records of the county – the documents which were created by people who lived in Oxfordshire during past centuries. From early records of property now close on a thousand years old, to detailed evidence given in court at the time of Henry VIII, to the surrender of Oxford to Cromwell’s men in 1646, to letters from the condemned cell in 1791, to records of the cholera epidemic in Victorian England.

l Address: County Hall, New Road, Oxford OX1 1NDl Telephone: 01865 – 815203 (general enquiries/bookings)l Fax: 01865 – 815429l Email: [email protected] Admission: Free (booking advisable for seats/microfilm readers: CARN – network cards required)l Disabled Access: Yesl Open: Monday – Wednesday 9.00am – 5.00pm Thursday – Saturday CLOSED (temporary opening hours before moving to the NEW Record Office in St. Luke’s Church, Cowley, September 2000)


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CENTRE FOR OXFORDSHIRE STUDIES

The Centre for Oxfordshire Studies was established in 1991 to bring together a wide range of local studies and family resources. It incorporates the County Local Studies Library, a major Family History Centre, important collections of maps and oral history tapes, the Oxfordshire Photographic Archive (OPA), and the Oxfordshire Sites and Monuments Record (SMR). For further information please ask for any of the following leaflets: Users guide - Centre for Oxfordshire Studies, Oral History, Using Oxfordshire Maps, Studying Oxfordshire Today, Your House - How to Trace its History, Using Oxfordshire Photographic Archive, and Using Oxfordshire Maps. l Address: Central Library, Westgate, Oxford OX1 1DJl Telephone: General inquiries 01865 – 815749l Fax: 01865 – 810187l Email: [email protected] Admission: Free (booking advisable for microfilm readers)l Disabled Access: Yesl Open: Monday 9.15am – 5.00pm Tuesday 9.15am – 7.00pm Wednesday CLOSED Thursday 9.15am – 7.00pm Friday 9.15am – 5.00pm

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OXFORDSHIRE MUSEUMS STORE, STANDLAKE

Oxfordshire Museums Store at Standlake was built by Oxfordshire County Council in 1993 to house and care for the County’s reserve collections of over 600,000 museum objects, dating from 2000 BC to the present day: Archaeology, History, Agriculture, Industry, Arts, Crafts, and Natural Sciences. The County’s Biological Record is also maintained here, together with associated collections. Documentation, Conservation and Exhibition Services provided from the Store support The Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock; The Museum of Oxford; Cogges Manor Farm Museum, Witney; Banbury Museum; Abingdon Museum; The Vale and Downland Museum, Wantage and a number of independent museums within the County.

For further information please ask for either of the following leaflets Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock or Museums and Galleries of Oxfordshire.

l Address: Witney Road, Standlake OX8 7QGl Telephone: 01865 – 300972 or 300716l Fax: 01865 – 263155l Email: [email protected] Admission: Free l Visitor Facilities: Car Park and Toiletsl Disabled Access: Yesl Open: By appointment; OPEN DAYS (see local media for details)


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STANDLAKE AND DISTRICT HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Standlake and District Historical Society held its inaugural meeting on 5th October 1993, its aim being to research the history of Standlake and its surroundings, to invite speakers to talk on subjects relating to local history and to visit places of historical interest in the neighbourhood. An earlier Society, the Standlake Local History Society, had been active during the 1970’s; although small in number, under the guidance of Brigadier and Mrs. F. R. L. Goadby, they achieved a great deal of research on the village, including a comprehensive survey of the older houses.

The present Society has an enthusiastic membership and meetings and visits are well attended. An Exhibition was held as part of the Victory in Europe commemorations in 1995 and a photographic record of Standlake at the turn of the century is planned is planned for June 2000. Visitors are always welcome at Meetings. For further information please contact Maureen Nicholas on the telephone number below.

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Directory of Sources for theHistory of Standlake

The material on this CDROM represents only a small anthology of sources forthe history of Standlake. A complete collection on one CDROM would beimpossible, and even a definitive listing of sources would run to manypages. The following selective list attempts to highlight the chiefsources available in print, and to list the main libraries and archiveswhere unpublished or manuscript material (including maps,photographs and illustrations) is deposited. Further information isprovided in the footnotes and bibliographies of the printed workslisted, and in the catalogues available in the listed libraries andarchives. Many printed materials are listed (with references) in E.H.Cordeaux and D.H. Merry, A Bibliography of Printed Works Relating toOxfordshire (1955), with a Supplement (1981)


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Sources included in part or in whole on this CDROM are marked.Most other printed sources are available locally in the Centre forOxfordshire Studies in Oxford Central Library, or in the BodleianLibrary.


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The Directory is arranged as follows:1. Published Histories of Standlake2. Memoirs3. Books, Articles, and Theses on Particular Topics (Archaeology;Buildings; General)4. General Books containing Standlake References5. Source Material Available in Print6. Printed Maps7. Manuscript and Unpublished Collections (Oxfordshire Archives;Centre for Oxfordshire Studies; Bodleian Library; Magdalen, St.John's, Lincoln, Christ Church, Brasenose, and New Colleges,Oxford; Public Record Office, London)8. Photographs and Drawings


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1. Published Histories of Standlake

Victoria History of Oxfordshire, volume xiii (Oxford University Press1996), pp. 171--205The VCH is an ongoing series which aims, when completed, to haveproduced a detailed history of every town, village and parish in thecountry. Thirteen Oxfordshire volumes have so far been produced,covering two-thirds of the pre-1974 county; the Vale of White Horse iscovered in the Berkshire volumes. For further information contact theEditor, Bodleian Library, Oxford OX1 3BG; tel. 01865 277238; [email protected]

Joan Goadby, 1228 and All That: A History of Standlake Village (privatelyprinted 1978)A general history from the earliest times to the 20th century, by a formerlocal resident


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2. Memoirs

L.S. Tuckwell, Some Reminiscences of Thirty Happy Years of Clerical Workin Standlake [1918?]The Memoirs of a late Victorian rector (incumbent of Standlake 1876-1907)


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3. Books, Articles and Theses on Particular Topics

ARCHAEOLOGY

J.Y. Akerman and S. Stone, ‘An Account of ... An Ancient BritishCemetery at Standlake, Oxon.’, in Archaeologia, 37 (1857), 363—70

J.Y. Akerman, 'Report of Researches in a Cemetery of the Anglo-SaxonPeriod at Brighthampton', in Archaeologia, 37 (1857), 391—8

Prof. Phillips, 'Discoveries at Brighthampton', in Proceedings of theSociety of Antiquaries, series 1 vol. 4 (1857), 70--1

S. Stone, ‘Account of Certain (Supposed) British and Saxon Remainsrecently discovered at Standlake’, in Proceedings of Society ofAntiquaries, series 1 vol. 4 (1857), 92--100


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S. Stone, ‘[Explorations at Standlake]’, in Proceedings of Society ofAntiquaries, series 1, vol. 4 (1858), 213--19

W.B. Dawkins, ‘On the Traces of the Early Britons [at Standlake andYarnton]’, in Proceedings of the Oxford Architectural and HistoricalSociety, new series, volume 1 (1862), 108--16; and in Gentleman’sMagazine (1862, pt. 2), 142--9

J.S.P. Bradford, 'An Early Iron Age Settlement at Standlake', inAntiquaries Journal, 22 (1942), 202--14

D.N. Riley, ‘A Late Bronze-Age and Iron-Age Site on Standlake Downs’,in Oxoniensia, 11/12 (1946--7), 27--43

H.J. Case, ‘The Standlake Iron Age Sword’, in Report of Oxford


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Archaeological Soc. no. 87 (1949), 7--8

T.M. Dickinson, ‘Excavations at Standlake Down in 1954: the Anglo-Saxon Graves’, in Oxoniensia, 38 (1973), 239--57

D. Brown, ‘The Site of Stephen Stone’s Saxon Cemetery at Standlake’, inOxoniensia, 38 (1973), 233--38

Archaeological notes in Oxoniensia 1938, p. 163; 1941, p. 88; 1942, p.103; 1943/4, p. 199; 1949, pp. 75-7; 1950, p. 107

Archaeological notes in South Midlands Archaeology (formerly Councilfor British Archaeology Group 9, Newsletter): 1972, pp. 16, 20; 1975, p.19; 1976, p. 16; 1977, pp. 59--60; 1979, pp. 31--7; 1981, p. 104; 1986,pp. 112; 1987, pp. 96--7


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BUILDINGS

N. Pevsner and J. Sherwood, Buildings of England: Oxfordshire (1974),776--8

S. J. Stradling, ‘Vernacular Architecture of the Parish of Standlake’(unpublished University of Manchester M.A. thesis, 1979): a copy isavailable in the Centre for Oxfordshire Studies

Standlake Local History Society, ‘Survey of 76 Houses over 100 Years Oldin Standlake and Brighthampton’ (unpublished typescripts withaccompanying photographs, 1975--6): copies in Centre for OxfordshireStudies, Sites and Monuments Record; and Bodleian Library, MS. Top.Oxon. c 768/1--2


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Dept. of Environment, Revised List of Historic Buildings: Standlake(typescript 1988), 114—29: copy available in Centre for OxfordshireStudies

C.J. Cornish, ‘A Royalist Post: Gaunt House’, in Country Life, xiii (1903),870--2

S. Webster, [ Brookes dissertation on Rectory House: TITLE?]

Notes in South Midlands Archaeology (formerly Council for BritishArchaeology Group 9, Newsletter), 11 (1981), 81; 12 (1982), 94--5(Standlake Rectory); 15 (1985), 83--5 (Lincoln Cottage)

Oxoniensia, 33 (1968), 82--3 (Old Cottage)

J. Ashdown and J. Munby (eds.), Programme of Visits to Buildings


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[Vernacular Architecture Group Spring Conference 1987] (priv. printed1987): copy in Centre for Oxfordshire Studies

M. Nicholas, The Parish Church of St. Giles, Standlake (St. Giles P.C.C.1998)

F.R.L. Goadby, St. Giles’s Church Standlake (1965)

GENERAL

F.R.L. Goadby, 'A Fulling Mill at Standlake', in Top. Oxon. (1971)

J. Goadby, ‘The Curate and the bishop [Wilberforce]’, in Top. Oxon. 18(1972)

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Top. Oxon. 19 (1973/4)

F.R.L. Goadby, ‘The Hermitage alias the Chequers at Standlake’, inOxoniensia , 37 (1972), 249--51


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4. Some General Books containing Standlake references (notintended to be definitive)

D. Benson and D. Miles, The Upper Thames Valley, an ArchaeologicalSurvey of the River Gravels (1974)J. Blair, Anglo-Saxon Oxfordshire (1994)F. Emery, The Oxfordshire Landscape (1974)D. Hooke (ed.), Medieval Villages: a Review of Current Work (1985), 104--5J. Howard-Drake, Oxford Church Court Depositions 1550--2 (andsubsequent volumes; series in progress)J. Kibble, Historical Notes on Wychwood (priv. print. 1928), p. 115(tobacco growing in the 17th century)D. McClatchey, Oxfordshire Clergy, 1777-1869 (1960)C. Mitchell, Around Witney in Old Photographs (1990)C. Mitchell and L. Waters, Around Witney Past and Present (1998)


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R. Plot, Natural History of Oxfordshire (1677), p. 203 (The Chequers Inn,formerly a hermitage)J. Steane, Oxfordshire (1996)T. Worley, The Witney District in Old Photographs (1992)

Dictionary of National Biography: entries for Arthur Homer (1758—1806)[rector]; Matthew Horberry (1707?—1773) [rector]; Sir Thomas Bodley[reference to John Burnett of Standlake]; Accepted Frewen(1588—1664) [rector]; Frank Stewart Howes (1891—1974) [music criticand resident]; Sir Thomas Pope (1507?-1559) [descended from EdmundYate of Standlake]; Sir John Pratt (1657-1725) [judge, native ofStandlake]; Thomas Smith (1638-1710) [rector]; Richard Stock (1569?-1626) [rector]


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5. Source Material Available in Print

The following volumes of the Oxfordshire Record Society :♦ Chantry Certificates and Edwardian Inventories of Church Goods, ed. R.

Graham (O.R.S. 1)♦ Parochial Collections by Anthony Wood and Richard Rawlinson, ed.

F.N. Davis (O.R.S. 2, 4, 11)♦ Hearth Tax Returns for Oxfordshire, 1665, ed. M. Weinstock (O.R.S.

21)♦ Church Bells Of Oxfordshire, ed. F. Sharpe, iv (O.R.S. 34), 384-5♦ Oxfordshire Hundred Rolls of 1279, ed. E. Stone (O.R.S. 46)♦ Articles of Enquiry at the Primary Visitation of Thomas Secker, 1738,

ed. H.A. Lloyd Jukes (O.R.S. 38)♦ The Correspondence of Bishop Secker, ed. A.P. Jenkins (O.R.S. 57)♦ Bishop Wilberforce's Visitation Returns, 1854, ed. E.P. Baker (O.R.S.

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♦ The Letter Books of Samuel Wilberforce 1843—68, ed. R.K. Pugh(O.R.S. 47)

♦ Church and Chapel in Oxfordshire,1851: the Returns of the Census ofReligious Worship, ed. K. Tiller (O.R.S. 55)

♦ Protestation Returns and Tax Assessments, 1641-2, ed. J. Gibson(O.R.S.59)

♦ Oxfordshire Muster Rolls, 1539, 1542, 1569, ed. P.C. Beauchamp(O.R.S. 60)

Standlake entries in Oxfordshire Trades Directories (available in theCentre for Oxfordshire Studies), e.g .:♦ Post Office Directory of Oxfordshire (1847 and later editions to 1877)♦ Kelly's Directory of Oxfordshire (1883 and later editions to 1939)


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Sale Catalogues and printed ephemera in Bodleian Library and Centrefor Oxfordshire Studies , Central Library (listed in Merry and Cordeaux,Bibliography of Printed Works Relating to Oxfordshire [see above] and inCentre for Oxfordshire Studies card indexes); among them:♦ Auction Catalogue, Standlake Manor House and Farm (1860)♦ Auction Catalogue, Manor and Yew Tree Farms (1896)♦ Auction Catalogue, Gaunt House and Mill (1920)♦ Auction Catalogue, Brighthampton Manor Estate (1924)♦ Auction Catalogue, Longwood, Standlake (1925)

Printed ephemera in Bodleian Library, G.A. c 317/13, including:♦ Standlake Bell Ringers’ Club Rules [c. 1890]

Standlake Parish Magazine, no. 1 (Jan. 1877)--No. 61 (Nov. 1882): copyin Bodleian Library, G.A. Oxon. 8o 666


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Standlake and Stanton Harcourt Horticultural and Cottage Garden Society'sShow: Rules and Schedule of Prizes (1882): copy in Bodleian Library,G.A. Oxon. c. 22 (19)

Newspapers:Standlake references in:♦ 'Chronological Synopsis and Index to Oxfordshire Items in Jackson's

Oxford Journal, 1753-80’, ed. E.C. Davis (typescript 1967)♦ 'Chronological Synopsis and Index to Oxfordshire Items in Jackson's

Oxford Journal 1781-90', ed. E.H. Cordeaux (typescript 1976)copies available in Centre for Oxfordshire Studies and Bodleian Library,Oxford


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Parliamentary Papers and Reports (available in Bodleian Library),including:♦ Reports of Select Committees on Poor Laws 1775 and 1787 (House of

Commons series I, vol. ix)♦ Abstract of Answers and Returns relating to the Expense and

Maintenance of the Poor (House of Commons 175 (1804), vol. i; 82(1818), vol. xix)

♦ Returns relating to Elementary Education (House of Commons 201(1871), vol. lv)


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6. Printed Maps

♦ T. Jefferys, Map of Oxfordshire (1767)♦ R. Davis, Map of Oxfordshire (1797)♦ Bryant, Map of Oxfordshire (1824)

Ordnance Survey :♦ 1" series, 1st edition, sheet 13 (1830)♦ 6" series, Oxon. XXXVIII. NW and SW (1883 edition)♦ 1/2,500 series, Oxon. XXXVIII.1-2, 5-6, 10 (1876, 1899, and 1921

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7. Manuscript and Unpublished Collections

OXFORDSHIRE ARCHIVES (County Hall, New Road, Oxford OX1 1ND; tel.01865 815203; email [email protected]; moving autumn2000 to St. Luke's Church, Cowley)Full guides, lists, and indexes are available in Oxfordshire Archives; thefollowing is a brief overview of the chief categories relevant to Standlake

Standlake Parish Records (PAR 248: full lists available in OxfordshireArchives). These include parish registers; 19th-century vestry minutes;18th-19th-century grass stewards' accounts; miscellaneous papers onpoor relief and charities; parish diary of Revd. Lewis Tuckwell (rector1876-1907)

Maps and surveys . All maps and plans (including those attached toprinted Sale Catalogues) are indexed. Of particular note are:


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♦ Standlake and Brittenton tithe award and map (1844), giving detailsof owners and occupiers of houses, farms, and land, and land-use

♦ Standlake Inclosure Award (1853), with 3 accompanying maps(whole parish)

♦ Brighthampton tithe award (1852), showing western part ofBrighthampton village only

♦ Standlake Altered Tithe Apportionment (1887), giving owners,occupiers, land-use

♦ Valuation and Maps under Finance Act (1910): DV VIII/396-400,403-4 (annotated Ordnance Survey maps, with accompanyingsurveys listing owners and occupiers)

Diocesan papers etc (MSS. Oxf. Dioc. and MSS. Oxf. Archd. Oxon.),including visitation returns, presentation and resignation deeds, glebeterriers, and other ecclesisatical documents (indexes available).


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Presentations to the church are calendared in two typescript volumes;miscellaneous Standlake documents are in MS. Oxf. Dioc. c 2017-18

Private deeds : indexed by place and personal name

Quarter Sessions records , including:♦ QSD V/1—4: Victuallers' recognizances, recording licences for public

houses from 1753 to 1822♦ QSD L. 260--1: land tax records from 1785 to 1830♦ W.J. Oldfield, 'Calendar of Quarter Session Records' [MS. Volumes

with card index to placenames]

Wills and Probate Inventories: indexed in D.M. Barratt and E. Cheyne,Oxfordshire Probate Records 1516-1732; D.M. Barratt, J. Howard-Drakeand M. Priddey, Oxfordshire Probate Records 1733-1857 (O.R.S. 61)


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School Log Books : T/SL 98 i-ii (1898-1934 and 1934-1977)

Nonconformist records : including Faringdon and Witney Primitive andWesleyan Circuit records (fully indexed)

CENTRE FOR OXFORDSHIRE STUDIES (Central Library, Westgate, OxfordOX1 1DJ; tel. 01865 815749) has the following:

♦ Census Enumerators' Books 1841-1891 : available on microfiches♦ Printed ephemera (including Sale Catalogues and newspaper

cuttings), all indexed by name and place♦ A selection of maps , including successive editions of most Ordnance

Survey maps♦ Parish register transcripts , with indexes♦ Printed books , including Trades Directories


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OXFORDSHIRE PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVE (located in the Centre forOxfordshire Studies; tel. 01865 815432)♦ Holdings include an assortment of 19th and 20th-century

photographs of Standlake and Brighthampton, most available onfiches

OXFORDSHIRE SITES AND MONUMENTS RECORD (located in the Centre forOxfordshire Studies; tel. 01865 810825)♦ Base maps and Primary Record Number (PRN) cards for

archaeological and other sites , leading to document files, reports,and additional information. Also collections of aerial photographs


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BODLEIAN LIBRARY (Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG; tel. 01865 277000;email [email protected])

Topographical and local history manuscript collections are indexedchiefly in the following catalogues, available in Duke Humfrey's Library,Old Bodleian Library:

♦ P.D. Record, Index to Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts♦ P.S. Spokes, Index to Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

[acquisitions 1916—1962]♦ M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Index to Summary Catalogue of

Western Manuscripts [acquisitions 1916—75]♦ index cards (on fiches) to MSS. Ch. Oxon [Oxfordshire Charters]♦ card index to topographical drawings and photographs


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The chief holdings relating to Standlake are:♦ MS. Top. Oxon. c 118 [scrapbook of Thomas Napkyn, curate of

Standlake 1616-39]♦ MS. Top. Oxon. c 768/1 and 2 [typescript histories of 76 houses in

Standlake by Brigadier L. Goadby, with accompanying photographs;also available in the Centre for Oxfordshire Studies, Sites andMonuments Record]

♦ Topographical drawings in MSS. Top. Oxon. a 68, nos. 495—7 [J.Buckler]; MS.

Top. Oxon. d 218, ff. 226, 233, 243; MS. Top. Oxon. c 522, f. 27♦ Photographs (20th-century) in MS. Top. Oxon. c 499/2

MAGDALEN COLLEGE, OXFORD

Magdalen College acquired Standlake manor in stages between 1483 and


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1556, and retained it until 1920. Its extensive Standlake archivecontains material from the late 14th century to the 20th, fully indexedin C.M. Woolgar, Catalogue of the Estate Archives of Magdalen College,and in W.D. Macray, Calendar of Oxfordshire Deeds in Magdalen College,III, nos. 540—603 (available in Magdalen College). Material includes:♦ miscellaneous deeds c. 1220—1722♦ miscellaneous leases♦ accounts and receipts from 1444/5♦ rentals, extents, terriers and surveys from 1394, including survey

and map of 1768♦ court rolls from 1385 (incomplete series)There is further material, including 19th and 20th-century farm surveys,in the Estates Bursary.

For further information, contact the Archivist, Magdalen College, OxfordOX1 4AU; tel. 01865 276088


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ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, OXFORDSt. John's College acquired Brighthampton and Hardwick manor in the16th century and retained it until the 20th. Its Standlake archivecovers a similar range to that of Magdalen College, though slightly laterand less extensive. Card indexes to the chief holdings are available inthe muniment room.

For further information, contact Dr. M.G.A. Vale, St. John's College,Oxford, OX1 3JP; tel. 01865 277363

LINCOLN COLLEGE, OXFORDLincoln College acquired Lincoln Farm (formerly Tyrlings) and a fewcottages in 1567; its Standlake archives relate to those properties from1545 until their sale in 1918.Contact the Librarian, Lincoln College, Oxford, OX1 3DR; tel. 01865279831


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CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORDChrist Church acquired Gaunt House and its estate in 1686; itsStandlake archives relate to that property from c. 1638 (when theestate was bought by Samuel Fell, dean of Christ Church) until its salein 1955.Contact the Archivist, Christ Church, Oxford, OX1 1DP; tel. 01865276171

BRASENOSE COLLEGE, OXFORDBrasenose acquired a fulling mill at Standlake in 1513 (demolished inthe 19th century), and a small estate of around 76 acres (includingBrasenose Farm) in 1529. Its Standlake archives relate to thoseproperties, those for the mill commencing in the early 13th century.The estate was sold in 1911 and 1918.Contact the Librarian, Brasenose College, Oxford, OX1 4AJ; tel. 01865277827


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NEW COLLEGE, OXFORDNew College briefly (1381—c. 1392) acquired one quarter of Standlakemanor from William of Wykeham, bishop of Winchester. The collegeholds account rolls relating to that period (New College Arch. 9161—4)Contact the Archivist, New College, Oxford, OX1 3BN; tel. 01865 279581

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDONThe disparate classes of records held at the P.R.O., and the numerouscatalogue series containing place-name indexes, are too extensive to belisted here. The most useful post-medieval sources include:

♦ Hearth Tax of 1662 : E 179/255/4, pt. i, ff. 23 and 27♦ Census Enumerators' books 1841—91 (also available on fiches in

Centre for Oxfordshire Studies: see above)


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♦ Farm survey, 1941—2 : MAF 32 (indexes at P.R.O.)♦ Wills proved in Prerogative Court of Canterbury, available on

microfilm; personal and place-name indexes available at P.R.O.

For further information, contact the Public Record Office, Kew,Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU; tel. 0181 876 3444. For generalbackground on the P.R.O.'s holdings, see M.G. Giuseppi, A Guide to theManuscripts Preserved in the Public Record Office (H.M.S.O. 1923--4);numerous shorter guides and information sheets are available at theP.R.O. shop.

Note that some records (e.g. Census, P.C.C. Wills, nonconformistrecords) have now been transferred to or are duplicated at the FAMILYRECORDS CENTRE , 1 Myddelton Street, London EC1R 1UW; tel. 0181 3925300


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8. Photographs and Drawings

See above under General Books containing Standlake references ; Centrefor Oxfordshire Studies ; Bodleian Library