Place:Wychwood, Oxfordshire, England

source: Family History Library Catalog

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

"WYCHWOOD FOREST, a forest in the W of Oxford; 4 miles NW of Witney. It is traversed by Akeman-street; and it comprises 3,709 acres. The whole, till recently, was a wild tract of wood and coppice, profusely intersected with green roads and winding paths; but is now, to great extent, disafforested and enclosed."

Wychwood became a civil parish in 1858 and was abolished as such in 1949 when the area was transferred to the civil parishes of Cornbury and Wychwood and Leafield. Cornbury and Wychwood was a newly formed parish. (Source: A Vision of Britain through Time)

Research Tips

• 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.