Cornwell lies approximately 20 miles north west of Oxford, close to the Gloucestershire and Warwickshire borders.
These records were originally deposited with the Bodleian Library under shelfmark MSS.D.D.Par Cornwell, and were then transferred to Oxfordshire Record Office in the 1980s. Further deposits were made as Acc 5850 in May 2009 and as Acc 7010 in October 2022. The collection was recatalogued by Hannah Jones in May 2009 with additions by Alison Smith in October 2022.
A concordance of old and new reference numbers is available at the back of the hard copy catalogue.