Place:Taynton, Oxfordshire, England

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Taynton is a village and civil parish about 1 1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) northwest of Burford in the West Oxfordshire District. The village is on Coombe Brook, a tributary of the River Windrush. The parish is bounded in the south by the River Windrush, in the north partly by Coombe Brook and its tributary Hazelden Brook, in the west by the county boundary with Gloucestershire and in the east by field boundaries. The 2001 UK census recorded the parish's population as 108.

Taynton produced a high quality limestone used in many well known buildings in the south of England, but its use was somewhat hindered by the problems of transporting it to fairly distant navigable rivers like the Thames. For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Taynton, Oxfordshire.

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• This part of Oxfordshire is not covered by the Victoria County History of Oxfordshire.
• 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.