Medieval source material on the internet: Modern works: County and local history: O
Modern works:
(2) County and local history: O
N.B. See also the index of places covered by the Victoria County History -
some articles are available online.
- Oldbury on the Hill, Gloucestershire: Hawkesbury
History (Robert Millard)
Includes a large number of abstracts, many of them medieval,
in the Hawkesbury Documents Index section;
also a brief history, the texts of books on local history,
extracts from the Domesday Book and from Bigland's Collections,
transcripts of wills and the Military Survey of 1522.
Also covers Didmarton, Oldbury on the Hill and Tormarton.
(This replaces the website of the Hawkesbury and Hillesley Family History,
formerly at http://www.hawkesburyfamilyhistory.co.uk/index.html)
- Pre Radclyffe History
of Ordsall, [Lancashire]
[formerly at http://www.ordsallhall.org/; unavailable, 26 April 2003; see the Internet Archive's
copy
of this page, from May 2002]
(City of Salford)
History to the mid-14th century; in the section on The Radclyffe Family,
under Resources in the menu
- David Roffe,
Osbournby [Lincolnshire]
- Late-Continued
Demesne Farming at Otford [Kent] (Kent Archaeological Society)
Text of an article by F. R. H. Du Boulay, published as Archaeologia Cantiana, vol. 73, pp. 161-124 (1959),
on 15th-century agriculture in the archbishop's manor of Otford
- Oxford
- James Parker The Early History of Oxford, 727-1100 (1885) (Google Book Search [Hints and tips])
- Information
for Visitors and Pilgrims (Christ Church Cathedral) [formerly at
http://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/cathedral/present/visitors.html; not available, 24 May 2005; see the Internet Archive's
copy
of this page, from September 2000]
Includes
A Brief History of Oxford and its Castle,
St. Frideswide's Priory, Oxford,
Priors of St Frideswide's,
Os[e]ney Abbey
and other material [not available, 24 May 2005; see the Internet Archive's copies here:
A Brief History of Oxford and its Castle,
St. Frideswide's Priory, Oxford,
Priors of St Frideswide's,
Os[e]ney Abbey
from April 1999]
- Richard John King, Handbook to the Cathedrals of England (1862) (Bill Thayer)
Excerpts, including accounts of the history of the see of Oxford, and the history of the cathedral