Heythrop

"HEYTHROP, a par. in the hund. of Wootton, co. Oxford, 3 miles E. of Chipping-Norton. It contains the hmlt., of Punthrop. Here was anciently a Carthusian monastery, founded in 1222 by William Longespee, Earl of Salisbury, but subsequently removed to Hinton, in Somersetshire. The village is small, and wholly agricultural. The tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £150. The living is a rect. in the dioc. of Oxford, val. £130. The church, dedicated to St. Nicholas, is a small ancient edifice, in part Norman, with fragments of sculpture outside the walls. The Heythrop hounds are kennelled here."

"DUNTHROP, a hamlet in the parish of Heythrop, in the county of Oxford, 3 miles N.E. of Chipping Norton."

[The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]