In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Great Milton like this:
MILTON (GREAT), a village, a township, and a parish, in Thame district, Oxford. The village stands on an eminence 1 mile E of the river Thame, and 5¾ WSW of Thame r. station; was known at Domesday, as Midelton; and has a post office under Tetsworth. The township includes the village, and extends into the country. ...
Pop., 630. Houses, 137. The parish contains also the hamlets of Ascot and Chilworth. Acres, 2,742. Real property, £4,088. Pop., 729. Houses, 161. Milton House is the seat of Mrs. Sheppard; and the Priory was lately the residence of Miss Duffield. A house said to have belonged to the ancestors of the poet Milton, stands opposite the village well; and has a gabled structure, and mullioned windows. A priory, a cell to Abingdon abbey, stood in the parish; and was given, at the dissolution, to Richard de Louches. Milton Field was a meet for the Wormsley harriers.. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £300.* Patron, the Bishop of Oxford. The church is chiefly decorated English; has a fine early English N door, and a good later English tower; comprises nave, aisles, and chancel; was thoroughly restored in 1851; contains a very handsome marble monument of 1618 to the Dormer family, and an interesting tomb of Mrs Wilkinson of 1654; was, till about 1852, a peculiar of the Bishop of Lincoln, and furnished two prebends, called Milton-Ecclesia and Milton-Manor, to Lincoln cathedral. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a national school, and charities £50.
Great Milton through time
Great Milton is now part of South Oxfordshire district. Click here for graphs and data of how South Oxfordshire has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Great Milton itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Great Milton in South Oxfordshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
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Date accessed: 20th April 2024
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