Place:Upton and Signet, Oxfordshire, England

source: Family History Library Catalog

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The civil parish of Upton and Signet was absorbed into Burford in 1954 to create the civil parish of "Burford and Upton and Signet". Upton and Signet had a population of 437 in the 1951 census, the last before the parish was absorbed.

Upton (near Burford) is a hamlet on the River Windrush about 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Burford and Signet is a hamlet on the A361 road just over 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Burford. The area has been since 1974 part of the West Oxfordshire District of Oxfordshire, England.

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

"UPTON, a hamlet in Burford parish, Oxford; 1¼ mile W of Burford. Population, with Signett, 214."

"SIGNETT, a hamlet in Burford parish, Oxford; 1 mile SSW of Burford."

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• Oxfordshire History Centre, St Luke's Church, Temple Road, Oxford, OX4 2HT
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• 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
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