Standlake is a parish in the west of Oxfordshire. Until 1976, it was an independent parish, but in that year it was combined with Northmoor, Stanton Harcourt and Yelford to form the benefice of Lower Windrush. This arrangement is still in force.
The parish records of Standlake have come to Oxfordshire Archives in several instalments. The main body of the records came from the Bodleian Library, where they had been deposited in 1968.
Other deposits had been made directly here in 1969, 1988 and 1991, and were assigned the Accession Numbers 836, 2747, 3213 and 3249. Some other records were found in the papers of Mr. F. Cull, which were given to the archives in 1993, with the Accession Number 3660 (the rest of this collection has been catalogued as P4). Two appendices provide respectively a list of the contents of each accession, and a concordance of old and new references.
Searchers should know that extensive collections of parish magazines for Standlake, as well as historical notes on the parish, may be found in P2 and P4 (the papers of Brigadier F.R.L. Goadby
and Mr. F. Cull).
Catalogued in December 1993 by Robin Darwall-Smith.