England
& Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of Shilton lies in the extreme west of Oxfordshire not too far from its border with neighbouring Gloucestershire. Shilton was, at one time, an enclave of Berkshire within Oxfordshire being detahced from its county albeit now firmly part of Oxfordshire. Shilton is a small and compact village lying about 6 miles west of the market town of Witney. Shilton sits immediately west of the B4020 road which connects Burford with RAF Brize Norton, the airfield dominates the landscape to the southeast of the village. Shilton is a riverside settlement formed where the crossing of the Shill Brook heads west from the B4020, it would have been, and still is, a farming community with a mixed regime of both pastoral and arable in place. The Shill Brook drains the parish southwards making its way to the Thames after a few miles, thence turning east and heading through Oxford and the capital to the North Sea. Shilton sits on a sloping site between 100 metres, by the Brook, and 120 metres, the land about the parish being of a similar height for some distance. This area of the county has a mixture of small and large parishes, Shilton is one of the firmer, covering just under 1,600 acres it would have supported a population of around 300 parishioners. Shilton is not specifically mentioned in Domesday Book. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 | 2nd October 1754 - 14th December 1812 | Oxfordshire History Centre - Reference - PAR233/1/R3/1 | Plain, ruled & bordered book containing combined Banns & Marriages | Grade 3 Register - there are sufficient quality issues with this register to indicate that some misreads will occur albeit few in number | Water damage causes staining of the pages and the use of "white-space" to segregate entries is almost nonexistent making for a possibility of both misread and accidental omission |
2 | 24th May 1813 - 3rd November 1836 | Oxfordshire History Centre - Reference - PAR233/1/R3/2 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
Burford
St John the Baptist
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Burford
St John the Baptist
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Broadwell
St Peter & St Paul
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Asthall
St Nicholas
Brize Norton St Brise |
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Broadwell
St Peter & St Paul
Kencott St George |
Alvescot
St Peter
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Black
Bourton St Mary
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