THE SOCIETY'S PUBLICATIONS IN PRINT
Latest Publication - January 2009 - The Churchwardens' Accounts for the Church of St Mary the Virgin Shipton under Wychwood 1554-1691, edited by Jack Howard-Drake. Includes an introduction describing the background and content of the Accounts. Full text only available on this website as a pdf file. Click here.
The Society's Annual Journal
(Click here to go directly to an index of names in the Society's Annual Journal, Wychwoods History, covering issues 1 to 24, the contents of which are listed below by issue). Back numbers may be obtained by writing to the secretary of the Society, Wendy Pearse or by emailing to journalordering@wychwoodshistory.org. Postage and packing is £1.10 for the first copy and 50p for each additional copy. Cheques should be made payable to Wychwoods Local History Society.
Wychwoods History, Number 1 (1985) £3.00
Hedge Survey of Milton & Shipton, Pt 1; Milton Graveyard Survey; Railway Timetable 1853; Cotham Cottage, Milton; Royal Manor of Sciptone in Domesday, Pt 1; Probate Inventory of William Hyatt, 1587.
Wychwoods History; Number 2 (1986) £3.00
William Master, Vicar of Shipton 1564-91; A Milton Field, 1842-1985; Survey of Baptist Ground, Milton; Letters of Thomas & Hannah Groves; Royal Manor of Sciptone in Domesday, Pt 2; Hedge Survey, Pt 2.
Wychwoods History, Number 3 (1987) £3.00
Published jointly with OUDES and edited by Kate Tiller. Milton & Shipton in the Nineteenth Century - Farming and community before 1850; Village government; Decade of change, the 1850s; Decade of decisions, the 1870s; Growing up 100 years ago; Life and work 1880-1914.
Wychwoods History, Number 4 (1988) £2.50
Earthworks at Lower Farm, Upper Milton (survey by James Bond); Fieldwalking in Evenlode Valley; Prebendal House, Shipton (excavation by Brian Durham); My Father's Days; Wartime Wedding.
Wychwoods History, Number 5 (1989) £3.00
The Poor of Shipton 1740-62; Shipton Milestone; St Mary's Church, Shipton; The Reade Chapel; Plague Tyme; Change in the Wychwoods, 1938-1988; Medieval Pottery Finds at St Mary's School, Shipton.
Wychwoods History, Number 6 (1991) £3.00
The Untons; Leonard Boxe, Gentleman of Ascott; Infantile Mortality 1565-94; The Wharton Charity; Medieval Fishpond at Bruern Grange; Shipton School Log Book 1869-1905; Mary Moss; Life in Old Milton.
Wychwoods History, Number 7 (1992) £3.00
Origins of Shipton Minster Church; The Groves Family, Pt 1; Early Days at Shipton; Ridge & Furrow; Henry Mills, Shipton Vicar 1593-1641; Death by Misadventure; The Milton Murder; Cottage on the Waste.
Wychwoods History, Number 8 (1993) £3.00
Royal Observor Corps; Shipton; Base-born in Shipton; The Groves Family of Milton, Pt 2; Milton Church - Architect's Plan; An Anglo-Saxon Charter for Shipton? Field- walking a Romano-British site above Shipton; Vital Statistics: Shipton Parish Registers.
Wychwoods History, Number 9 (1994) £3.00
The Medieval Lords of Shipton, Pt I; The De Clares; Shipton in 1662, a Hearth Tax Study; Possession is Nine Points of the Law; The Groves Family of Milton, Pt 3; Emigrants to America; Old Christmas Custom at Chadlington; Moss Families of Ascott; Book Reviews.
Wychwoods History; Number 10 (1995) £3.00
Jessie Hunt, Evacuee 1939-45; Shipton in 1662: Hearth Tax Study, Pt 2; Shipton Village Shops and Roundsmen; First Parish Council Elections; Smallpox; Puzzles over Shipton Prebend; What really happened at Shipton Court; The de Langleys: Medieval Foresters; George Quartermain of Ascott.
Wychwoods History, Number 11 (1996) £3.00
Shipton Small Tithes 1727-34; Memories of Ascott; Ascott Priory Tithes; The Chaundys of Ascott; 'Where There's Muck...'; Agistment - a Tithing Nightmare; Asthall Roman Camp; A Determined Emigrant.
Wychwoods History, Number 12 (1997) £3.00
Welfare in the Wychwoods 1700-1834; From Annie to Barbara - Five Generations of a Shipton Family; More Memories of Ascott; Sheepwashing & the Ascott Sheepwash; The Barters of Sarsden and Salome of Natal; Lady Harriet Reade; The Wychwooders Lament; Springhill Farm.
Wychwoods History; Number 13 (1998) £3.00
Mother Shipton; Gwen Morgan, a Milton teacher; Doctor's Bill; Killing the Pig; Occupations 1785-1817; The Stampe Family; Farming Memories of Chadlington.
Wychwoods History, Number 14 (1999) £3.00
Crime & Punishment in 1790, a Tale of Wychwood Men; John Chapman's Legacy; A Bouquet of Roses; A Roman Villa at Upper Milton?; Cospatrick Tragedy; The Agricultural Ladder; Memories of Shipton Station.
Wychwoods History, Number 15 (2000) £3.50
Survey of Earthworks at Ascott d'Oilley Castle; A Wychwoods Farming Year 1854-55; Shipton and Religion in Sixteenth Century; Medieval Pottery in Wychwoods; Burford to Banbury Turnpike Road; Wychwood Manors in Domesday ;Book; What's in a Name?
Wychwoods History, Number 16 (2001) £3.50
Hartley Heritage Part One; Shipton & the Foxe Family; James Longshaw of Shipton, Musician; Care in the Community Eighteenth-century Style; Ascott Tollgate Board; The Millennium Fieldwalk; Assigning Quarters in the Wychwoods 1939-45.Wychwood History, Number 17 (2002) £3.50
His Name be not Forgotten; From Village Medicine Cupboard and College; Some Wychwood Neighbourhoods about 1900: Milton; Who’s Heard of Daffy’s?; Reuben Rainbow’s Diary; Recollections of John Richards.
Wychwood History, Number 18 (2003) £3.50
Chesnut Close; Local Casualties in a Forgotten War in Iraq; Some Wychwood Neighbourhoods about 1900;Wychwood Local History Society The First 21 Years; Hartley Heritage Pt 2.
Wychwood History, Number 19 (2004) £3.50
A special issue celebrating the four hundredth anniversary of the building of Shipton Court. Shipton Court Revisited; The Lacys; The Site of Shipton Court and the Manor House; Shipton Court Doveloft; The Reade Family; The Most Mature Reflections - Dame Harriott Reade; Local Country Houses during Victoria's Reign; The Dispersal of the Shipton Court Estate1913-1947; The Pepper Family 1901-1919; The Thomson Family 1919-1931; Life at Shipton Court in the Mid-Twentieth Century; Court and School.
Wychwood History, Number 20 (2005) £3.50
Joan Rein Remembers; Milton Church 1854-2004; Roman Activity at Swinbrook; Shipton and the Church Courts; Albert Oliver MM; The People of the Wychwoods in 1881; Traditional Dance Musicians of the Wychwood Villages
Wychwood History, Number 21 (2006) £3.50
Reginald Tiddy; The Thomsons and the Walkers of Shipton Court; James Baggs and his Little Black Book; The Manor Courts of Ascott D'Oilly; Gordon and Jean Carpenter; Kelcot House; Gossip in Lyneham
Wychwood History, Number 22 (2007) £3.50
Bruern Abbey 1147-1536; To the 'Lee' of the Walkers; William Smith, Clock maker of Milton under Wychwood; The Society's Fieldwalk Programme - The Final Report, Part I; The Shipton Tillyards
Wychwood History, Number 23 (2008) £3.50
Defiant Women - The Ascott Martyrs; Joan and Ben Townsend and Albert (Bim) Champness; The Society's Fieldwalk Programme - The Final Report, Part II; The Godfrey Case; The Little Girl from Salisbury Place; The St Michael's Connection
Wychwood History, Number 24 (2009) £3.50
Shipton under Wychwood Churchwardens' Accounts 1554-1696; A Portrait of John Rawlins; Intrepid Travellers - Three Wychwoods Women in the 1880s; St Michael's - Another Connection; St Mary's Church of England Primary School Shipton under Wychwood
Other PublicationsThe Shipton-under-Wychwood Constables' Book 1807-1851 £3.00
This is a transcription of the Constables' Account Book covering most of the first half of the 19th Century, that is the period just before enclosure and the establishment of a professional police force.
An eight page introduction by Doctor Margaret Ware describes the role of the village constable and puts the various entries in perspective.
That's How it Was: Women in the Wychwoods during World War Two £5.50
An illustrated record of life in the Wychwood villages in World War Two, as recalled by the women who lived and worked there.
The Wychwoods Album - Volumes One and Two
Album One was published in 1985, produced by Sue Jourdan and Sue Richards. This is unfortunately now out of print. Album two was published in 1990 and produced by Sue Jourdan and John Rawlins. There are a few copies of Album Two left and these are available at £2 including postage and packing. Digital copies of photographs from the albums can usually be supplied to broadband addresses (single photographs no charge). Prices for prints and multiple digital photographs on application to www.wychwoodshistory.org. Volume Two comprises eighty photographs illustrating life in Milton, Shipton and neighbouring villages, particularly between the wars. An index covering both Albums is available here.
A Walker’s Guide and Map to Shipton under Wychwood, Milton under Wychwood and Ascott under Wychwood
Three leaflets for £1.75.
