OLD MAPS OF THE PARISH OF DEDDINGTON

Rob Forsyth

Over the centuries there have been many maps of the parish and its surrounding area. This section provides links to some of the more notable ones.

 

1808 Town plan. This link takes you to an article by Colin Cohen who is a member of the D&DIstrict History Society and editor of their societ newsletter 224

 

1808    A map showing the principal inclosure allotments and see also the description of farms and inclosures in Victoria County History

 

1814 (approx)   An early OS survey


1875 (approx) Imaginary bird's eye views of the village were drawn by Joseph Wilkins, a Deddington resident and cartographer who lived in Gilkes Style at the south end of New Street - now known as The Stile.  A History of Deddington, Oxfordshire by H.M.Colvin, 1963 contains a black and white copy of his view from the south. Colvin dates the drawing at 1875 but close observation shows that the church still has the Georgian porch, which was demolished in 1863. The original colour image of the view from the south - from which Colvin presumably took his copy - is in the archives of the Banbury Museum (accession number OXCMS : ti1446) and is reproduced by courtesy of  Oxfordshire County Council Museum Service. A black and white copy of Wilkin's view from the east can be found in Mary Vane Turner's  The Story of Deddington.

 

1881, 1886 & 1889 - maps for these years can be obtained via the website of old-maps.co.uk.
1910 survey for rating valuation purposes consists of 6  full colour maps based on the OS covering the whole of the parish. They are archived in the  Oxford Records Office at St Lukes under the references below. It remains a project to obtain images of all 6 maps and also the associated  ledgers, alphabetically keyed to the maps, which contain details of each property. Meanwhile the following ORO references will help anyone wishing to research them.

Deddington:     D.V.VIII/86 & D.V.VIII/139

These links show some images of parts of the maps

From the Market Place south to Chapmans Lane

Earls Lane, Horsefair and the Bullring

Hempton Road

Hempton:               D.V.VIII/79 & D.V.VIII/126

Clifton:                   D.V.VIII/87 & D.V.VIII/140

Valuation ledgers :  D.V.X/45 & D.V.X/46

 

2000 Millenium Maps compiled and published by Deddington Map Group to record what the parish looked like at the turn of the new century.


Deddington today   Local maps can be found in the Parish Guide section of this site and a street map here