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Published September 2007
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North Aston, Bicester, Oxfordshire, OX25 6HT
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ISBN
978-1-902863-18-4
Cover:
Hardback, full colour, matt laminated
Inner: 175 gsm Gloss Art
Extent: 192 pages
Page size: 190mm x 260mm
Cover size: 193mm x 266mm
Spine: 17mm
Edited
by Marcus Potts and John Harvey-Lee
Designed
by Marcus Potts, CMC Graphics
Typeset in Sabon
Printed
and bound in the United Kingdom by
Information
Press, Oxford
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All
information has been gathered and reproduced in good
faith. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure the
accuracy of content, no responsibility can be accepted
by the editors, publishers, or their agents for errors,
omissions or exceptions contained therein.
SOURCES
AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
Annals of the Elton Family, Margaret Elton,
1994
The Annals of North Aston, William Wing, 1867
Census of 1851
The Domesday Book, edited by Thomas Hinde,
1985
The Farington Diary (1810 & 1811)
Groves Dictionary of Music
The History of Everyday Things in England,
Quennell, 1918
A History of Steeple Aston and Middle Aston,
The Rev. C. C. Brookes M.A.,1929
The Imperial Dictionary of Biography, 1864
North Aston Parish Register, 1500-1880
Poltergeists, Alan Gauld , 1979
The Story of Britain, Sir Roy Strong, 1996
The Victoria County History, History of the
county of Oxford, 1983
PHOTOGRAPHS & ILLUSTRATIONS
The
image depicting a page from the Domesday Book of 1086
is reproduced with the kind permission of the National
Archives, Kew, Surrey. Image © Alecto Editions
The portrait of Thomas Saunders Dupuis by John Russell
on page 25 is reproduced by kind permission of the Ashmolean
Museum of Art & Archaeology, Oxford.
The portrait of Miss Jane Bowles by Sir Joshua Reynolds,
1775 on page 27 is reproduced by kind permission of
the Trustees of the Wallace Collection, London.
The self portrait in oils by Oldfield Bowles, 1783 on
page 29, is reproduced by kind permission of the National
Trust, Elton Collection. Photographer: Ian Blantern.
The black and white reproduction of the watercolour
of North Aston Church on page 70, entitled South East
View of North Aston Church, Oxfordshire by John Buckler,
1822. M.S. Top. Oxon. a.67, fol.398. The Bodleian Library,
University of Oxford.
The Packer Collection of photographs, some depicting
North Aston during the early decades of the 20th century,
is now part of the Oxfordshire County Council Photographic
Archive. The majority of those reproduced here have
been done so with the kind permission of Oxfordshire
County Council. (Please see below for a link to the
Oxfordshire Heritage Search facility.) Other images
from the Packer archives are from private collections.
Photographs of the locomotive, North Aston Hall, by
courtesy National Railway Museum: T.E. Williams archive,
ref nnnn.
The cartoons and sketches throughout the book are the
work of John Harvey-Lee, including those on pages 8
through 21, 24, 32, 38 to 44 and page 83.
The maps on pages 181, 183 and 186 were created by Marcus
Potts (CMC Graphics).
Many
of the historic and archive photographs are from the
personal collections of residents of North Aston. The
editors express their gratitude for the generosity,
cooperation and understanding of all those who loaned
precious family photographs, old postcards, drawings
and other ephemera.
With
many thanks for their generous help to:
Bodleian Library, Melissa Dalziel, Principal Library
Assistant
The British Library, London
Julia Elton
The National Army Museum, Michael Ball, Department of
Printed Books
The National Trust, Mrs Jo Moore, Collections Manager,
Somerset
Centre for Oxfordshire Studies, Photographic Archive
National Archives, Kew, Surrey
University of Oxford, Faculty of Music, John Wagstaff,
Librarian
The Wallace Collection, Jo Charlton, PR and Rights Officer
Oxford University Archives, assistant keeper Alice Millea
Magdalen College Oxford, Robin Darwall-Smith
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