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A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Binfield Hundred from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "BINFIELD, a hundred in Oxford, in the extreme SE, extending from the Chilterns to the Thames. It contains seven parishes and part of another. Acres: 21,906. Population: 9,598. Houses: 1,962."
Binfield Hundred covers the parishes that lie along the northwest bank of the River Thames from Henley to Caversham. Caversham has been Since 1911 Caversham has been located in Berkshire as a suburb of Reading, the county town.
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Parishes
Research Tips
- A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, (covers Henley parish and borough, and the parishes of Bix, Harpsden, Rotherfield Greys and Rotherfield Peppard provided by British History Online in the series Victoria County Histories (Originally published by Boydell & Brewer for the Institute of Historical Research, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2011.)
- Oxfordshire History Centre, St Luke's Church, Temple Road, Oxford, OX4 2HT
- Oxfordshire FHS covers the whole county. The Family History Society provides an interactive map to assist in locating individual parishes and also relates the society's progress in transcribing parish registers and gravestone information for that particular parish. Browse the website to see what else the society can provide.
- Further information from GENUKI
- Ordnance Survey map of Oxfordshire 1900 provided by A Vision of Britain through Time
- Ordnance Survey map of Oxfordshire 1944 provided by A Vision of Britain through Time
- English Jurisdictions 1851, a parish finding aid provided by FamilySearch, particularly helpful in large towns and cities.
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