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CHARLBURY, a small town, a parish, and a subdistrict, in Chipping-Norton district, Oxford. The town stands on an eminence, adjacent to the river Evenlode, and to the Oxford and Worcester railway, near Cornbury Park and Wychwood Forest, 6 miles SE of ChippingNorton; and has a station on the railway, a post office‡ under Enstone, a banking office, an inn, a church, several dissenting chapels, and a grammar school. The church is variously Norman, early English, and decorated; has a tower of the 13th century; and contains monuments of the Somersets and the Jenkinsons. The grammarschool has £40 a year from endowment, with two exhibitions at Brasenose college; and other charities have £70. A weekly market is held on Friday; fairs are held on 1 Jan., the second Friday in Lent, the second Friday after 13 May and 11 Oct.; and some trade is done in glovemaking and leather-dressing.—The parish contains also the hamlets of Finstock, Fawler, and Walcott, the tything of West Chadlington, and the chapelries of Shorthampton and East Chadlington. Acres 11,320. Real property, £15,117. Pop., 1,388. Houses, 301. The property is much subdivided. The manor belonged to the Mercian kings; was given by them to the Bishops of Lincoln; passed to the Abbey of Ensham; and went, at the dissolution, to St. John's College, Oxford. The living is a vicarage, united to the p. curacies of Shorthampton and Chadlington, in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £800.* Patron, St. John's College, Oxford. The vicarage of Finstock is a separate benefice. The subdistrict contains eight parishes, part of another parish, and two extra-parochial tracts. Acres, 40,288. Pop., 8,915. Houses, 1,863.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a small town, a parish, and a subdistrict" (ADL Feature Type: "cities") |
| Administrative units: | Charlbury AP/CP Charlbury SubD Chipping Norton RegD/PLU Oxfordshire AncC |
| Place: | Charlbury |
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