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A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 3
Gives accounts of the parishes of Huxloe, Polebrook and Navisford hundreds, as well as the boroughs of Higham Ferrers and Northampton.
A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 5, the Hundred of Cleley
This volume deals with a group of a dozen parishes in the south of the county, on either side of Watling Street between Towcester and Stony Stratford.
A History of the County of Nottingham: Volume 2
A part-volume covering the religious houses of the county. It includes the early history of Southwell Minster.
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 15, Bampton Hundred (Part Three)
Covers Carterton, Minster Lovell, and environs, totalling eight rural parishes in west Oxfordshire, between Burford and Witney.
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 14, Bampton Hundred (Part Two)
Covers the west Oxfordshire market town of Witney and the rural townships of Crawley, Curbridge and Hailey, all of which formed a single parish until the late nineteenth century.
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 2
Covers the religious houses of the county, including some early colleges of the University of Oxford. The volume also includes accounts aspects of social and economic history and the archaeology of the county.
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 11, Wootton Hundred (Northern Part)
This volume contains the histories of nineteen parishes in the northern part of Wootton hundred, including Glympton, Heythrop, Rousham, Sandford St. Martin, the Astons, the Bartons, the Wortons, and the three Tews.
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 13, Bampton Hundred (Part One)
Covers the area of the sixteen ancient parishes of Bampton hundred, in the west of the county, bordering onto Gloucestershire to the west and Berkshire to the south.
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 12, Wootton Hundred (South) Including Woodstock
The Victoria County History's account of the Borough of New Woodstock
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 6
The parishes of the hundred of Ploughley, bordering Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire in the north-east of the county. It includes an account of the town of Bicester.