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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Filkins like this:
FILKINS, a chapelry in Broadwell parish, Oxford; 5 miles SSW of Burford. It has a post office under Swindon. Acres, 3, 430. Real property, £2, 420. Pop., 641. Houses, 154. F. Hall is the seat ofSmith, Esq. The living is a vicarage. Value, £76.* The church is good; and there are a Baptist chapel and a national school.
Filkins is now part of WEST OXFORDSHIRE District. Click here for graphs and data of how WEST OXFORDSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Filkins itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Filkins, in West Oxfordshire and Oxfordshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/10057
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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