Place:Highmoor, Oxfordshire, England

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Highmoor is a village and civil parish in the South Oxfordshire District of Oxfordshire, England. It is located in the Chiltern Hills about 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Henley on Thames. The parish includes the hamlet of Satwell.

The Grade II Listed Church of England parish church of Saint Paul at Highmoor Cross was designed by the architect Joseph Morris of Reading and built by Robert Owthwaite of Henley-on-Thames in 1859 as a chapel of ease by the vicar of Rotherfield Peppard to cater for the wider rural population of the parish. Highmoor later became a separate parish but the church was closed by a pastoral order in June 2012 as a result of a dwindling congregation.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Highmoor from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"HIGHMORE, a chapelry in Bix and Rotherfield-Greys parishes, Oxford; under the Chiltern hills, 4½ miles WNW of Henley-on-Thames [railway] station. It was constituted in 1860; and its post town is Nettlebed, under Henley-on-Thames. Population: 333. Houses: 71. Population of the Rotherfield-Greys portion: 283. Houses: 60. The living is a [perpetual] curacy in the diocese of Oxford. Value: £101. Patron: the Rector of Rotherfield-Greys. The church was built in 1859, and is in the early English style. There is a national school."

Note that Wikipedia referes to Rotherfield Peppard while Wilson's Gazetteer states Rotherfield Greys.

Research Tips

• A map illustrating the parishes of southeast Oxfordshire as of 1900 will be found under Thame Hundred
• 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.