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HORLEY, a parish, with a village, in Banbury district, Oxford; at the boundary with Warwick, 4 miles NW of Banbury town and r. station. Post town, Banbury. Acres, 970. Real property, £2, 515. Pop., 337. Houses, 80. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; and, till 1866, was united with the vicarage of Hornton; but was afterwards to be separated. Value, with Hornton, £400.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is early and decorated English, with a central tower on Norman foundations; and has a beautiful early English piscina, and an early Norman font. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a national school with £49 from endowment, and charities with £13.
(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: | Horley CP/AP Banbury RegD/PLU Oxfordshire AncC |
| Place: | Horley |
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