Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BARFORD (St.Michael)

BARFORD (St.Michael), a parish in Banbury district, Oxford; on the river Swere, 2½ miles W by N of Deddington, and 4 W of Aynho r. station. Post Town, Deddington, under Oxford. Acres, 1,180. Real property, £2,204. Pop., 332. Houses, 85. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £67.* Patron, John Hall, Esq. The church is early English, with fine Norman door. There are two Methodist chapels, and charities £25.


(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: Barford St Michael CP/AP       Banbury RegD/PLU       Oxfordshire AncC
Place names: BARFORD     |     BARFORD ST MICHAEL     |     ST MICHAEL BARFORD
Place: Barford St Michael

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