Place:Mollington, Oxfordshire, England

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Mollington is a village and civil parish about 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Banbury in Oxfordshire, England. The 2011 UK census recorded the parish's population as 479.

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

"MOLLINGTON, a chapelry in the parish of Cropredy and counties of Oxford and Warwick; 1 ¾ mile N W of Cropredy [railway] station, and 4¾ N by W of Banbury. Post town, Cropredy, under Banbury. Acres of the Oxford portion: 1,200. Real property, £2,377. Population: 234. Houses: 53. Acres of the Warwick portion: 620. Population: 138. Houses: 34. The living is a [perpetual] curacy in the diocese of Oxford. Value: £120. Patron: the Bishop of Oxford. The church is early English; comprises N aisle and chancel, with a tower; and was recently restored. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel, an apprenticing fund, and a small charity."

In 1086 (year of the Domesday Book), Mollington was partly in three counties: Oxfordshire, Warwickshire and Northamptonshire. Later the village was only in Oxfordshire and Warwickshire, and in 1895 the Warwickshire part was transferred to Oxfordshire by the Local Government Act 1894. Mollington, although included in Cropredy parish which is in the Banbury Hundred, also lay in Bloxham Hundred.

A Vision of Britain through Time states that Mollington first became a separate civil parish in 1866.

Research Tips

Victoria County History of Oxfordshire, volume 9, chapter on Cropredy includes references to Mollington.

• 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.