Maps

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.

A good place to start might be an article in the December 2001 edition of 224 (*see footnote), the magasine of the Deddington & District History Society. This article - called Mapping changing Deddington - takes an overview of the various maps - several of which are linked below - that have covered the history of the parish and discusses some of the inferences that can be drawn from them.

1808

• The Enclosure Act.This Act resulted in the first comprehensive mapping of towns and villages throughout the country. Those for our parish can be found by following the links below

              Map                                                               Keys

• Cartwright Duchy Town plan. This link takes you to an article by Colin Cohen (editor 224) in which he looks at this plan using information from The Cartwright Duchy Manor records.
• Principal inclosure allotments.  This map comes from  Victoria County History in which can also be found the description of farms and inclosures. 
• Philcote Street and surrounding area was mainly occupied by agricultural workers and their families.
  

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 Two pdfs approx 400Kb each         North Deddington        South Deddington

        Another version of this map can be seen by following this link to the 224 article Mapping changing Deddington              

1886 & 1889 - maps for these years can be obtained via the website of old-maps.co.uk.

1902  Two pdfs approx 400Kb                North Deddington         South Deddington

1910 survey for rating valuation purposes This major survey 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           

1923   Two pdfs approx 400Kb each    North Deddington   South Deddington 

1954 Christ Church College sold a large amount of its holdings known as Deddington Estates. The map of their holdings and the accompanying brochure of particulars (4.5Mb pdf) provide a wealth of detail about the parish at that time.

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 Visitor Guide section of this site and a street map here

Google Street View has arrived in Deddington (January 2010). Enter a post code or zoom in on a map location to use it. For more detailed instructions follow this link.

* Footnote: the title of the D&DHS newsletter is taken from the sheet number used by the draughtsmen of the Ordnance Survey in the early years of the 19th century to identify the individual drawings made by the surveyors for the first edition one inch maps.