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Boundary Changes Affecting Archive Holdings

• The Vale of White Horse district and parts of the South Oxfordshire administrative district south of the River Thames were historically part of Berkshire, but, in 1974, Abingdon, Didcot, Faringdon, Wallingford and Wantage were added to the administrative county of Oxfordshire.
• The Caversham area of Reading, now administratively in Berkshire, was historically part of Oxfordshire, as was the parish of Stokenchurch, now administratively in Buckinghamshire.
• The areas of Oxford city south of the Thames, such as Grandpont, were transferred much earlier, in 1889.

Archives

(In July 2011 the former Oxfordshire Record Office, Oxfordshire Studies (formerly in Oxford's Central Library), and the Oxfordshire Health Archives (formerly at the Warneford Hospital) were merged into one comprehensive history service and renamed Oxfordshire History Centre.

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Oxfordshire History Centre
St. Luke’s Church
Temple Road
Cowley, Oxford OX4 2HT UK

Telephone: 01865 398 200
Email: oxhist@oxfordshire.gov.uk
Website
Catalogues
Parish catalogues
Digital resources for Oxfordshire history: Births, marriages and deaths

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Oxfordshire Health Archives
Oxfordshire History Centre
St. Luke’s Church
Temple Road
Cowley, Oxford OX4 2HT UK

Telephone: 01865 398 243
Email: archives@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk
Website[
[https://oxfordshirehealtharchives.nhs.uk/enquiries/family-history/ Family History Enquiries

Libraries

Oxford Central Library

Oxford Central Library
Westgate, Oxford OX1 1DJ UK
Telephone (General enquiries): 01865 815 509 and 01865 815 549
Telephone (Information and reference enquiries): 01865 815 409
Email: oxfordcentral.library@oxfordshire.gov.uk
Website: Oxford Central Library

Due to the Westgate Development the library has moved to a smaller temporary, location in the Castle Quarter, offering a limited number of services until October 2017. Comprehensive facilities for local and family history research are available at Oxfordshire History Centre.

Museums

For a long list of Oxfordshire museums, go to List of museums in Oxfordshire in Wikipedia.