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The ParishThe parish of Greatworth lies in southwestern Northamptonshire not too far from both borders with neighbouring Oxfordshire & also Buckinghamshire. Greatworth is a mid-sized village which is located roughly 7 miles east of the Oxfordshire market town of Banbury & which sits a mile south of the B4525 road which links A422 from just east of Banbury through to the A43 northeast of Brackley. Much of Greatworth is built on a north to south running lane with a modern northeastern extension added in recent times. Like most rural parishes Greatworth would have been a farming parish, here the regime would have been largely mixed with arable and pastoral in roughly equal proportions, today modern machinery has expanded the arable content like it has in many areas. Modern developments came and went from Greatworth, a branch railway line linking Banbury with Towcester passed close by but has since been dismantled. Greatworth is drained by the headwaters of the Great Ouse, one of the countries longest rivers, which has multiple small tributaries merging to form its beginnings before embarking on the long journey to The Wash arriving through the port of Kings Lynn. Greatworth is sited at around 160 metres above the sea yet the countryside is only gently undulating with a local high point of 189 metres on Thenford Hill to the northwest. Greatworth was one of Northamptonshire's smaller parishes covering barely 800 acres within which it would have supported a population of just under 200 parishioners. In Domesday times Greatworth certainly did not live up to its name as it could offer just 4 ploughs as assets for its holder Bishop Odo of Bayeux. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 | 15th February 1755 - 12th October 1813 | Northamptonshire Archives | Bishops Transcripts on looseleaf folios | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads |
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2 | 14th April 1814 - 2nd February 1837 |
Northamptonshire Archives - Reference - 139P/004 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 3 Register - there are sufficient quality issues with this register to indicate that some misreads will occur albeit few in number | Fading of this register associated with poor handwriting may lead to a few misreads |
Sulgrave
St James
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Sulgrave
St James
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Helmdon
St Mary Magdalene
Brackley St Peter |
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Farthinghoe
St Michael
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