Documents in Bodleian Library
relating to Headington
These documents have to be ordered up with a green slip (not via OLIS)
I. Sale Catalogues
G.A. Oxon B85a (33)
1848. Sale catalogue for Headington House
G.A. Oxon B91
This is a big batch of sale catalogues bound together in a large volume with plain cream board covers and tied with a piece of tape. The spine reads: Sales of Oxford Estates: H–O. Each of the sale catalogues has a pencilled number in brackets at the foot of its front page. The ones relevant to Headington are numbers (4)–(8).
(4) 1846. Two compact farms. These comprise the remains of the manor (163 acres, 3 roods and 11 perches), and the farms in question are Holley Farm, and the farm occupying the land to the east and north-east of Pullen’s Lane/ north of Cuckoo Lane.
(5) 1895. The Manor House. This is the just the Manor estate itself and its park, stretching from Cuckoo Lane to Dunstan Road, plus Lot 2 (nine cottages in the Croft).
(6) 1906. Headington House (including its land south of Cuckoo Lane, and its fields on the south side of the London Road and to the north of Old Headington
(7) 1911. The Manor of Headington, to be sold by the executors of William Peppercorn. Lots include Plowman’s Farm, building land near Pullen’s Road, “Hillside” house, brickfields (Jack Straw’s Lane), Rose Cottage on the London Road, and a building estate lying between the Oxford and London Road, just to the east of the Boundary Brook. This has two excellent maps, one showing the eastern and the other the western part of the manorial land
(8) 1916. Sale of Napier House, Pullen’s Lane.
G.A. Oxon B 92b (7)
1946. An estate in the parish of Headington for sale by auction
MS Top. Oxon a.24 (85)
1829: Plan of an estate in the parishes of Headington and Marston
2. Paintings and Drawings
There are numerous paintings of Headington in the Bodleian Library: look under Headington in the box file in the window of Duke Humphrey’s Library. Listed below is just a small sample
MS Top. Oxon a.86 fol. 24
1891. Joe Pullen’s Tree, watercolour by John Wood
MS Top. Oxon b.89 fol. 194
1834. Joe Pullen’s tree by J. Fisher
MS Top. Oxon b.89 fol. 142
1840. Joe Pullen’s Tree
MS Top. Oxon b.93 fol.13 no. 25
1791. Joe Pullen’s tree by Malchair
MS Top. Oxon c.475 fol. 12
West view of cottage on north side of Mr Pearson’s house
MS Top. Oxon d.283 fol. 202
1779. House of Sir Banks Jenkinson (the Manor House) by John Pridden
MS Top. Oxon d.286 no. 52, col. 3
Photograph of the stump of Joe Pullen’s tree
G.A. Oxon a.71 p. 45, no. 80
1821. Joe Pullen’s tree by Delamotte
G.A. Oxon a.71, p. 43, no 76
Garden of Headington Hill Hall by Delamotte
G.A. Oxon a.71, p. 46, nos. 83 & 84
1830: Joe Pullen’s tree by Delamotte
G.A. Oxon a.71, p. 47
1870: Photograph of Joe Pullen’s tree
G.A. Oxon a.73, p. 79
1837 & 1898: An alley/Headington Church/Joe Pullen’s tree, on sheet with others
G.A. Oxon a.106 fol. 259
Photograph of Joe Pullen’s tree
G.A. Oxon a.106 fol. 261
View of Oxford from Mrs Morrell’s house and garden by Taunt