The location is where the name Little 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 Little 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".
Little Forest Grounds through time
Little Forest Grounds is now part of Cherwell district. Click here for graphs and data of how Cherwell has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Little Forest Grounds itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Little Forest Grounds, in Cherwell and Oxfordshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
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Date accessed: 26th April 2024
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