History of Oxford in Oxfordshire

Place:

Oxford Oxfordshire

Names from historical writing:

The following appear as names for Oxford. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name	Author	Source
OXFORD	John Bartholomew	Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
OXFORD	John Marius Wilson	Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
ST ALDATE	John Bartholomew	Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
ST MARY THE VIRGIN	John Bartholomew	Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

The above links take you to the first reference to this particular version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant gazetteer entry.
Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.

Names for administrative units:

These names were used for units associated with Oxford. Click on the links for details of the units and their names:

Name	Unit Type	Source
38UC	District/Unitary Authority	Census of Population (2001 Key Statistics)
ALDATES ST	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	1831 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
ALDATE ST	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	1831 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
ALL SAINTS	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	1871 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1861 and 1871, in the Parishes and Places comprised in each Superintendent Registrar's District'.
CARFAX	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 403.
E290865	Local Government District (CB/MB)
EAST OXFORD	Constituency (BCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
EBBE ST	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	1831 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
GILES ST	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	1831 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
JOHNS ST	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	1831 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
MARTIN ST	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	1831 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
MARY MAGDALEN ST	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	1831 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
MARY THE VIRGIN ST	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	1831 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
MICHAEL ST	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP)	1831 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
NUFFIELD COLLEGE	Parish-level Unit (ColParPart)	H.E. and Mary D. Salter and Lobel, A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 3 - The University of Oxford (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1954), p. 354.
OXFORD	1841 Occupation reporting area	1841 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Occupation Abstract'.
	Ancient District (AD_City/Borough)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 664.
	Ancient District (Liberty)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 392.
	Archdeaconry	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 767.
	Constituency (BCon/PBCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
	Diocese	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 782.
	District/Unitary Authority	Census of Population (2001 Key Statistics)
	Local Government District (CB/MB)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 664.
	Parish-level Unit (CP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 402.
	Poor Law Union/Reg. District (RegD/Inc)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 664.
	Registration sub-District	1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
	Rural Deanery	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 780.
	Sanitary District (USD)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 665.
	Urban Labour Market	Great Britain Historical GIS Project
OXFORD ALL SAINTS	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 403.
OXFORD ALL SAINTS	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 403.
OXFORD AND SUBURBS	Ancient District (AD_City/Borough)	Robin Glasscock, The Lay Subsidy of 1334 (London: British Academy, 1975)
OXFORD EAST	Constituency (BCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
OXFORD HOLY TRINITY	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 403.
OXFORD ST ALDATE	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 403.
OXFORD ST ALDATE	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 403.
OXFORD ST ALDATE WITH HOLY TRINITY	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 403.
OXFORD ST ANDREW	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 403.
OXFORD ST ANDREW	Parish-level Unit (AP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 403.
OXFORD ST BARNABAS	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 403.
OXFORD ST BARTHOLOMEW HOSPITAL	Ecclesiastical Parish (EExP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 403.
OXFORD ST BENEDICT	Parish-level Unit (AP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 403.
OXFORD ST BUDOC	Parish-level Unit (AP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 403.
OXFORD ST CROSS AND ST PETER IN THE EAST WITH ST JOHN THE BAPTIST	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 403.
OXFORD ST EBBE	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 403.
OXFORD ST EBBE	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 403.
OXFORD ST EBBE WITH ST PETER LE BAILEY	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 403.
OXFORD ST EDWARD	Parish-level Unit (AP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 403.
OXFORD ST GEORGE	Parish-level Unit (AP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 403.
OXFORD ST GILES	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 403.
OXFORD ST GILES	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 403.
OXFORD ST JOHN	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	1851 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
OXFORD ST JOHN THE BAPTIST	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 403.
OXFORD ST JOHN THE BAPTIST	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 403.
OXFORD ST MARGARET	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 403.
OXFORD ST MARTIN	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 403.
OXFORD ST MARTIN	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 403.
OXFORD ST MARTIN AND ALL SAINTS	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 403.
OXFORD ST MARTIN AND ALL SAINTS	Parish-level Unit (CP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 403.
OXFORD ST MARY MAGDALEN	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 403.
OXFORD ST MARY MAGDALEN	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 403.
OXFORD ST MARY THE VIRGIN	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 403.
OXFORD ST MARY THE VIRGIN	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 403.
OXFORD ST MATTHEW GRANDPONT	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 403.
OXFORD ST MICHAEL	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 403.
OXFORD ST MICHAEL	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 403.
OXFORD ST MICHAEL AT THE NORTH GATE WITH ST MARTIN AND ALL SAINTS	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 403.
OXFORD ST MICHAEL SOUTH GATE	Parish-level Unit (AP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 403.
OXFORD ST MILDRED	Parish-level Unit (AP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 403.
OXFORD ST PAUL	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 403.
OXFORD ST PETER IN THE EAST	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 403.
OXFORD ST PETER IN THE EAST	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 403.
OXFORD ST PETER IN THE EAST WITH ST JOHN THE BAPTIST	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 403.
OXFORD ST PETER LE BAILEY	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 403.
OXFORD ST PETER LE BAILEY	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 403.
OXFORD ST PHILIP AND ST JAMES	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 403.
OXFORD ST THOMAS	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 403.
OXFORD ST THOMAS THE MARTYR	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 403.
OXFORD UNIVERSITY	Constituency (UniCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
OXFORD UNIVERSITY COLLEGES AND HALLS	Parish-level Unit (ExP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 403.
OXFORD WEST AND ABINGDON	Constituency (CCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
OXON CUM SUBURBIO EIUSDEM	Ancient District (AD_City/Borough)	Robin Glasscock, The Lay Subsidy of 1334 (London: British Academy, 1975)
PETER LE BAILEY ST	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	1831 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
PETER ST IN THE EAST	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	1831 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
ST ALDATE	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	1851 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
ST ANNES COLLEGE	Parish-level Unit (ColParPart)	H.E. and Mary D. Salter and Lobel, A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 3 - The University of Oxford (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1954), p. 351-3.
ST EBBE	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	1871 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1861 and 1871, in the Parishes and Places comprised in each Superintendent Registrar's District'.
ST GILES	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	1871 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1861 and 1871, in the Parishes and Places comprised in each Superintendent Registrar's District'.
ST GILES AND ST JOHN	Parish-level Unit (CP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 404.
ST JOHN	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	1871 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1861 and 1871, in the Parishes and Places comprised in each Superintendent Registrar's District'.
ST JOHN THE BAPTIST	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	1921 Census of England and Wales, Table 3, 'Population, Acreage, Private Families and Dwellings'.
ST MARTIN	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	1871 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1861 and 1871, in the Parishes and Places comprised in each Superintendent Registrar's District'.
ST MARTIN AND ALL SAINTS	Parish-level Unit (CP)	1921 Census of England and Wales, Table 3, 'Population, Acreage, Private Families and Dwellings'.
ST MARY	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	1851 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
ST MARY MAGDALEN	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	1871 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1861 and 1871, in the Parishes and Places comprised in each Superintendent Registrar's District'.
ST MARY OXFORD	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	1861 Census of England and Wales, Table 1, 'Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1851 and 1861, in Districts, Sub-districts, Parishes and Places'.
ST MARY THE VIRGIN	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	1871 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1861 and 1871, in the Parishes and Places comprised in each Superintendent Registrar's District'.
ST MICHAEL	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP)	1871 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1861 and 1871, in the Parishes and Places comprised in each Superintendent Registrar's District'.
ST NICHOLAS	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 403.
ST PETER IN THE EAST	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	1871 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1861 and 1871, in the Parishes and Places comprised in each Superintendent Registrar's District'.
ST PETER LE BAILEY	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	1871 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1861 and 1871, in the Parishes and Places comprised in each Superintendent Registrar's District'.
ST PETERS COLLEGE	Parish-level Unit (ColParPart)	David Horan, Oxford: A Cultural and Literary Companion (Oxford: Signal Books, 1999), p. 163.
ST PETERS HALL	Parish-level Unit (ColParPart)	H.E. and Mary D. Salter and Lobel, A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 3 - The University of Oxford (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1954), p. 336-8.
ST THOMAS	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	1871 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1861 and 1871, in the Parishes and Places comprised in each Superintendent Registrar's District'.
THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD	Parish-level Unit (ExP)	1851 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
THOMAS ST	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	1831 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
UNIVERSITY COLLEGES AND HALLS	Parish-level Unit (ExP)	1931 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Intercensal Changes in Boundaries, 1921-31'.
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD	Parish-level Unit (ExP)	1831 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
WEST OXFORD	Constituency (CCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)

NB: These are all the names of all the administrative units which we have associated with Oxford, and you must judge whether all or even any of them are variant names for the place. They may well include the names of other locations or areas:

For cities, the associated administrative units will usually include parishes, especially ecclesiastical parishes, one of whose names is the name of the city followed by a saint's dedication, with just the saint's name as another variant. Parish names will sometimes also include "places" within towns.
Districts usually contain more than one settlement, and some districts had their names changed to take the name of a completely different settlement. As we link each administrative unit to just one of our "places", usually the last place the unit was named after, in these cases the name for a completely different place will appear on this page.
Similarly, a unit may sometimes be named after a particular settlement it contains and sometimes to indicate its location within a higher level unit. This was very common among British parliamentary constituencies in rural areas, one name referring to their main town and another indicating that they were in, say, the southern part of the relevant county.

Every name listed here is linked to the particular historical source in which it appears, but we cannot claim that these are all the historical names of Oxford, or that our references are to the first usage of the names. Similarly, we have tried to ensure that names included here are not transcription errors by ourselves, but it is possible they are the result of errors made when the historical sources were printed, or the result of visiting authors or census officials mis-hearing local names.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Oxford in Oxfordshire | Place names, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/887/names

Date accessed: 20th April 2024

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