Place:Oxford St. Aldate, Oxfordshire, England

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Name	Oxford St. Aldate
Type	Parish (ancient), Civil parish
Located in	Oxfordshire, England
See also	Oxford, Oxfordshire, England	city in which it was located

St. Aldate's was first recorded early in the 12th century, but its name, a corruption of 'old gate', suggests a much earlier foundation, (fn. 108) for the original invocation had been lost by that date. The parish was enlarged in the 14th century by the addition of St. Edward's parish, and in 1524 by St. Michael at the South Gate. In 1913 the parish of St. Matthew's Grandpont was formed out of the southern part of St. Aldate's parish. In 1956 the ecclesiastical parish of Holy Trinity, originally taken from St. Ebbe's parish, was united with St. Aldate's. (Source: brief notes from Chapter in Victoria County History of Oxfordshire, Volume 4, the City of Oxford, entitled "Ancient Parish Churches".)

Wikipedia describes the main street of St. Aldate's parish.

Start of Parish Registers	1678	Start of Bishops Transcripts	1721
Colleges Included	Christchurch, Pembroke
Location	The parish stretches beyond the River Thames into an area that was in Berkshire. It is bounded on the north by Oxford St. Martin, on the east by the grounds of Oxford Cathedral, Oxford St. Clement and Iffley, and on the south and west by South Hinksey, North Hinksey, Oxford St. Thomas the Martyr, Holy Trinity and Oxford St. Ebbe.
Later History	Civil parish absorbed into the civil parish of Oxford in 1926. Ecclesiastical parish continued to exist.