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| Resources - Libraries, Databases, Museums: |
http://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/index.htm |
| http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk Bodleian Library, some online images and info. |
| http://www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk
Ashmolean Library, some online images and info. |
| http://www.sog.org.uk/prc/oxford.html Oxfordshire parish register copies, entry for Iffley and Iffley St Mary. |
| www.hmc.gov.uk/index.htm Historical Manuscripts Commission, National Register of Archives database. |
| http://members.aol.com/OFHS/mfiche.htm Oxfordshire Family History Society, publications on microfiche. |
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http://www.rrm.co.uk/
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| http://www.semuseums.org.uk/memberserv.html South East Museums Agency, links to many museums in S.E.England: Oxon, Berks, Bucks, Hants, Isle of Wight, East and West Sussex, Surrey, Kent, Channel Islands. |
| www.cix.co.uk/~archaeology/directory/smids.htm Directory of British Archaeology, S.Midlands. See 'National Bodies' at the bottom of the page. |
| http://www.coam.org.uk/index.html Chiltern Open Air Museum, over 30 actual buildings through the ages rebuilt in Chalfont St Giles, Bucks. 'For Researchers' for archive on old buildings and building methods, and 'Buildings' for a few photos. |
| http://www.reading.ac.uk/Instits/im/index.html Rural History Centre, Reading. Big database of bibliography and images. |
| www.pro.gov.uk Public Record Office - repository of central government and lawcourts national archives for England, Wales and UK. Lists service centres for access. |
| www.census.pro.gov.uk 1901 census online, searchable database, 32 million names. Viewing individual's transcription - 50p, (person's name, position in household, married or not, age, profession, employment status, where they were born and current address.) View image of original census page - 75p. Min session - £5. |
| www.familyrecords.gov.uk Aims to give easy access to information and links to the main UK family history sites on the web. |
| www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk 'Navigate' for Site Map. 'Compass' for huge international historical image and text database, ' Tours' - Iron Age and Viking, great Pre-history and Anglo-Saxon/Viking weblinks in Education, etc, etc. |
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www.streetmap.co.uk For a modern OS map of Iffley, click on Large Map for street map of Iffley and search for 'Iffley, Oxfordshire'. |
| www.multimap.com For modern British and international maps. |
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www.old-maps.co.uk |
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| http://www.iffley.co.uk
St Mary's Church, Iffley, official website, history, services, information. |
| http://rubens.anu.edu.au/raid1cdroms/england/oxfordshire/iffley Very good. 48 photos of details of St Mary's Church, Iffley, 35 of exterior, 13 interior. Taken with tower scaffolding up. |
| www.thames-search.com/iffley.html Good colour photo of Iffley Church and Rectory, 1999. |
| http://www.stevensr.force9.co.uk/photolibrary/rollfilm/findex.htm 6 photos of Iffley Church under 'Churches' and 'Villages'. Robert Stevens |
| http://home.gwi.net/~smary/history.html Granite church in Maine inspired by St Mary's in Iffley, built 1890-1950. |
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Iffley Mill: |
| http://web.ukonline.co.uk/dg.small/wessex/Silvery%20Thames/Iffley%20Mill.jpg Photo of Iffley Mill, c1900. |
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http://www.francisfrith.com |
| John Newman, Vicar of Littlemore, 19thC and the Oxford Movement |
| http://associnst.ox.ac.uk/st-marys/history.htm John Newman, (vicar of St Mary's, High St, 1828-1843, and of Littlemore village, which had no church), and the Oxford Movement. |
| http://www.ccel.org/n/newman/apologia/htm/ii.63.htm Extract from Newman's Apologia Pro Vita Sua, 1864, P.92 by Dr John Henry Newman, Vicar of St Mary's, Oxford from 1828, describing part of Littlemore being in Iffley parish in 1844. "...in 1844 I lived at Littlemore; two or three miles distant from Oxford; and Littlemore lies in three, perhaps in four, distinct parishes, that of particular houses it is difficult to say, whether they are in St. Mary's, Oxford, or in Cowley, or in Iffley, or in Sandford, the line of demarcation running even through them." |
| http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/~ben/lmore/howell1.htm 'Newman's Church at Littlemore' - Fundraising and construction. In 1835, 'the foundation stone was solemnly laid by Newman's mother Jemima, who had gone to live at Rose Bank, Iffley, in 1830.' Grove Bank is the former name of Grove House. |
| http://www.stclement.free-online.co.uk/history.htm History of St Clement's Church, originally in The Plain, next to the turnpike toll-house, and the young vicar, John Newman (of The Oxford Movement). He revived the church and parish from population explosion in the 1820s. The new Norman St Clement's church at the bottom of Headington Hill was possibly inspired by Iffley Church. |
| Other Iffley-related sites: |
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http://www.quns.cam.ac.uk/Queens/Images/iffley.html |
| http://www.charitiesdirect.com/charity4/ch004644.htm Donnington Hospital Trust in Newbury, important land-owner in Iffley, 'The provision and management of almshouses', some financial figures and contact details. |
| http://www.uknature.freeserve.co.uk/bbont.html For the BBONT website (see Hotspot 30 and Snakeshead Fritillaries) and information on their guide to local nature reserves. |
| http://www.viridis.net/cubg/fmeleagris.html Fritillaria meleagris, good photos of snakeshead fritillary, an occasional native British plant, found in Hotspot 30. |
| http://members1.chello.nl/~a.hendriks01/kiln.htm How a Roman kiln works, reconstruction project with detailed explanation, diagrams and photos. |
| http://www.any-town.co.uk/H/Headington/Texts/Headington_Workhouse.asp History of the Headington Union Workhouse, 1838-1930s, which served the Iffley Parish amongst others. |
Literary References: |
| http://thewag.net/jerome5.htm
The text of 'Three Men in a Boat (To say nothing of the Dog)', 1889, Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927). See end Ch.18. for his view of Iffley. "'Iffley lock and Mill, a mile before you reach Oxford, is a favourite subject with the river-loving brethren of the brush. The real article, however, is rather disappointing, after the pictures. Few things, I have noticed, come quite up to the pictures of them, in this world." "...Between Iffley and Oxford is the most difficult bit of the river I know. You want to be born on that bit of water, to understand it. I have been over it a fairish number of times, but I have never been able to get the hang of it. The man who could row a straight course from Oxford to Iffley ought to be able to live comfortably, under one roof, with his wife, his mother-in-law, his elder sister, and the old servant who was in the family when he was a baby. First the current drives you on to the right bank, and then on to the left, then it takes you out into the middle, turns you round three times, and carries you up stream again, and always ends by trying to smash you up against a college barge. Of course, as a consequence of this, we got in the way of a good many other boats, during the mile, and they in ours, and, of course, as a consequence of that, a good deal of bad language occurred." ".....Fishing along the river: 'the river abounds in pike, roach, dace, gudgeon and eels, jack and perch. You can see them there in shoals." |
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http://www.magd.ox.ac.uk/history/intro.shtml |
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http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/BLJ/b1275.html |
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http://members.aol.com/santayana "Iffley Court is to let. Take it and turn it into a home for convalescent officers who have no domicile in England, for Canadians, for instance. You can easily put up ten or a dozen; and you needn't live with them; you can live here in the vicarage, and merely keep an eye on the establishment next door." "You remember
those two poplars at the entrance to that little tea garden? … "….in the garden of the lock-keeper's cottage, beside the tall upstanding rose-bushes, like little trees,..." (At the lock-keeper's house) "They've moved to old Mrs. Tubbs. The first little white house, sir, at the turn of the road. You can't miss it, sir, with 'Hawthorne Lodge' written on the gate".…a modernised cottage, clean and comfortable, when once you overcame the oppression of its tiny windows and low ceilings." ."..that evening as he walked back to Oxford by the deserted river…Christmas holidays...He stopped short, and looked back towards Iffley Mill, still faintly visible beneath its poplars." |