The location is where the name "Great Forest Grounds" appears on the 1887 OS 6 inch map ('England - Oxfordshire: 033', Ordnance Survey 1:10,560 - Epoch 1 (1887). URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/mapsheet.aspx?compid=55133&sheetid=6740&zm=2&x=322&y=305&ox=4489&oy=329 Date accessed: 23 January 2011). The 1881 census describes Great Forest Grounds as one of a set of areas "formerly extra-parochial, locally situated between the parishes of Wood Eaton, Elsfield, Stow Wood, and Islip".
Great Forest Grounds through time
Great Forest Grounds is now part of South Oxfordshire district. Click here for graphs and data of how South Oxfordshire has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Great Forest Grounds itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Great Forest Grounds in South Oxfordshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/22787
Date accessed: 18th April 2024
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