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[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]
"SHENINGTON, a parish in the upper division of Tewkesbury hundred, county Oxford, formerly in Gloucestershire, 6 miles N.W. of Banbury, its post town, and 29 N.W. of Oxford. The village, which is situated on the borders of Warwickshire and Gloucestershire, is wholly agricultural. The surface is hilly, and the land chiefly arable. The soil produces good crops of wheat, barley, and turnips. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Worcester, value £321. The church, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, was partially rebuilt in the last century. The parochial charities produce about £6 per annum. The Dissenters have a place of worship. There is a free school."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
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- Original source material relating to Shenington, and other parishes in Diocese of Oxford may be found at the Oxfordshire Record Office; with the exeception of Bishops Transcripts, which (if they exist) should be found at Gloucestershire Archives.
- The transcription of the section for Shenington from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
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- Shenington was a detached parish of Gloucestershire until 1844. It is now in Oxfordshire.
[q.v. Kain & Oliver; OS Map 145, parish #29/1]
See also: Widford.
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