Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WATERPERRY

WATERPERRY, a parish, with Thomley hamlet, in Thame district, Oxfordshire; 2 miles ENE of Wheatley r. station, and 7¼ E of Oxford. Post town, Wheatley, under Oxford. Acres, 2,620. Real property, £3,218. Pop., 231. Houses, 44. The manor, with W. House, belongs to the Right Hon. J. W. Henley. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £60.* Patron, the Right Hon. J. W. Henley. The church has an early English chancel and a decorated English nave.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish, with Thomley hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Waterperry CP/AP       Thame RegD/PLU       Oxfordshire AncC
Place: Waterperry

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