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"SHIPTON-UNDER-WYCHWOOD, a parish in the hundred of Chadlington, county Oxford, 6 miles S.W. of Chipping Norton, its post town, 4 N.E. of Burford, and 1 mile N.E. of the Shipton station on the West Midland section of the Great Western railway. It is situated on the river Evenlode, and comprises the chapelry and the hamlets of Milton, Langley, and Lineham. It was formerly the seat of the Lacys of Pudlicot, and at Langley, in this parish, was a royal hunting seat. The impropriation belongs to the Professorship of Civil Law in the University of Oxford. The living is a vicarage with the curacy of Ramsden annexed, in the diocese of Oxford, value £335, in the patronage of the bishop. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is old, with some traces of Norman architecture. It contains a sculptured stone pulpit and an octagonal font, ornamented with the arms of the Earls of Warwick. At the W. end of the nave is a painting of the Resurrection, and in the N. aisle an altar-tomb, with a recumbent effigy of a female. There is also a district church at Seafield, the living of which is a perpetual curacy, value £55. The parochial charities produce about £97 per annum. There is a National school for both sexes. There are traces of three religious houses, and an ancient building converted into the "Crown Inn". At Milton three singular stone vessels were found in digging the quarries." [The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

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Gazetteers

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

"LANGLEY, a hamlet in the parish of Shipton-under-Wychwood, hundred of Chadlington, county Oxford, 5 miles N.W. of Witney, and 5 N.E. of Burford. It is situated in Wychwood Forest. There are still remaining parts of the walls of a palace belonging to King John. Near the hamlet is a quarry of marble which is susceptible of a high polish."

"MILTON, a township in the parish of Shipton-under-Wychwood, hundred of Chadlington, county Oxford, 6 miles S.W. of Chipping Norton, 3 N.E. of Burford, and 1 mile W. of Shipton. The village is considerable. A church has been erected; also a school with master's residence. There are three places of worship for Dissenters."

"POOLE LODGE and PRATLEYS LODGE, extra parochial places in the parish of Shipton-under-Wychwood, county Oxford, 4 miles N.W. of Witney. They are situated in Wychwood Forest."

"PRATLEY'S LODGE, an extra parochial place in the chapelry of Leafield, parish of Shipton-under-Wychwood, county Oxford, 4 miles N.W. of Witney. It is situated in Wychwood Forest."

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