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 the Society's Annual Journal, Wychwoods History, covering issues 1 to 23, 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
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 Second Wychwoods Album Now £2.50
Eighty photographs illustrating life in Milton, Shipton and neighbouring villages, particularly between the wars.
A Walker’s Guide and Map to Shipton under Wychwood, Milton under Wychwood and Ascott under Wychwood
Three leaflets for £1.75.
