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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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HORNTON, a parish with a village, in Banbury district, Oxford; adjacent to Warwickshire and under EdgeHill, 5 miles W by S of Cropredy r. station, and 5½ NW of Banbury. Post town, Banbury. Acres, 1, 400. Real property, £3, 226. Pop., 514. Houses, 133. Fire stone is found. The living is a vicarage, in the diocese of Oxford; and, till 1865, was annexed to the vicarage of Horley-Value, not reported. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is partly of the 12th century, partly of the 13th; and has a tower. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel and an endowed national school.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish with a village" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Hornton AP/CP Banbury RegD/PLU Oxfordshire AncC |
| Place: | Hornton |
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