Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SHIFFORD

SHIFFORD, a chapelry in Bampton parish, Oxford; on the river Thames, 5¼ miles SSE of Witney r. station. Post town, Bampton, under Faringdon. Acres, 880. Real property, £1,070. Pop., 41. Houses, 8. A great council was held here by Alfred. The living is annexed to Bampton.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Bampton CP/AP       Shifford CP/Ch       Oxfordshire AncC
Place: Shifford

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