Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ROLLRIGHT (Great)

ROLLRIGHT (Great), a village and a parish in Chipping-Norton district, Oxford. The village stands 3 miles N by E of Chipping-Norton r. station; was known at Domesday as Rollendri; and has a wall letter-box under Chipping-Norton. The parish comprises 2, 360 acres. Real property, £3, 478. Pop., 410. Houses, 93. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to Brasenose College, Oxford. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £250.* Patron, Brasenose College, Oxford. The church is partly Norman, partly early English, all good: and contains a monument to Shepheard, the friend of Prior. There are two Baptist chapels, a national school, and charities £130.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Great Rollright AP/CP       Rollright CP       Chipping Norton RegD/PLU       Oxfordshire AncC
Place names: GREAT ROLLRIGHT     |     ROLLENDRI     |     ROLLRIGHT     |     ROLLRIGHT GREAT
Place: Great Rollright

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