Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HAILEY

HAILEY, a township and a chapelry in Witney parish, Oxford. The township lies near the river Wye, 2 miles N by W of Witney r. station. Acres, 2, 827. Real property, £5, 959. Pop., 1, 316. Houses, 299. The chapelry includes also the hamlet of Crawley; and bears the name of Hailey-cum-Crawley. Post town, Witney. Acres, 3, 943. Real property, £7, 055. Pop., 1, 569. Houses, 301. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £300. * Patron, the Bishop of Oxford. The church was rebuilt in 1869. There are an endowed school with £14, and other charities with £33.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township and a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Hailey CP/Ch       Witney AP/CP       Oxfordshire AncC
Place names: HAILEY     |     HAILEY CUM CRAWLEY
Place: Hailey

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