Launton, Oxfordshire

Location

Launton is an ancient parish located in the north east of the county of Oxfordshire. The village of the same name lies in the south of the parish. To the east, the parish abuts Buckinghamshire.

The market town of Bicester is a couple of miles to the west. The county town of ((GB_OXF_Oxford|Oxford) is approximately sixteen miles to the south-west, the town of Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire approximately the same distance to the east south east and Banbury, Oxfordshire also the same distance to the north-west.

Parish Church

The Parish (CofE) Church is St Mary The Virgin, Launton which can be found here on Google Street View

Parish Registers

The surviving parish registers are held at the Oxfordshire History Centre, where they are catalogued with reference PAR159. See https://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/sites/default/files/file/history-collections/parishregisters.pdf and https://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/sites/default/files/file/history-collections/GuidetoArchiveCollections.pdf.

Using their Heritage Search feature at https://apps2.oxfordshire.gov.uk/srvheritage/basicSearch for "Launton Church Parish Registers" gives a single result. That catalogue record suggest they hold Baptism from 1648, Marriages from 1671 and Burials from 1681, with open access to transcripts. (All url's accessed June 2020. Deep linking into their site seems not to be possible.)

Adjacent (Pre 1832) Parishes

To the east of Launton lies Twyford, Buckinghamshire and Marsh Gibbon, Buckinghamshire. Ambrosden lies to the south and Bicester to the south west. To the north west lies Caversfield. To the north are Stratton Audley, a detached portion of the afore mentioned Caversfield and Godington. (All parishes in Oxfordshire unless otherwise indicated.)

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