Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FIFIELD

FIFIELD, a parish in Chipping-Norton district, Oxford; on the W verge of the county, 3½ miles SSW of Shipton r. station, and 4½ N by W of Burford. It has a post office under Chipping-Norton. Acres, 1, 148. Real property, £1, 386. Pop., 234. Houses, 51. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory, united in 1865 with Idbury, in the dio. of Oxford. Value, £267. Patron, the Bishop of Oxford. The church has an early English chancel, an E window with flowing tracery and stained glass, and an octagonal tower with a spire; and is good. Charities, £49.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Fifield CP/Ch       Chipping Norton RegD/PLU       Oxfordshire AncC
Place: Fifield

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