Salford is located approximately 20 miles north west of Oxford, and lies on the Oxfordshire/ Warwickshire border.
This collection was originally deposited with the Bodleian Library between 1978 and 1985 and was given the collection reference MSS.D.D.Par Salford. The whole collection was transferred to Oxfordshire Record Office in the mid 1980s. Further deposits were made as Acc 5848 in May 2009, Acc 6328 in September 2014, Acc 6373 in April 2015 and Acc 7013 in October 2022.
The entire collection was recatalogued in May 2009 by Hannah Jones; additions by Chris Gilliam in Sep 2014 and Alison Smith in October 2018 and October 2020. A concordance of old and new references is available at the back of the hard-copy catalogue.