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"LANGFORD, a parish partly in the hundred of Farringdon, county Berks, and partly in that of Bampton, county Oxford, 4 miles E. of Lechlade, its post town, and 12 from the Farringdon Road railway station. It contains the chapelry of Little Farringdon, and the hamlets of Grafton and Radcot, in Oxfordshire, to which county the whole parish is attached for electoral purposes. The village is small, andholly agricultural. The tithes were commuted for land and a money payment under Enclosure Acts obtained in 1808 and 1810. The living is a vicarage with the curacy of Little Farringdon annexed, value £350, in the diocese of Oxford. The church, dedicated to. St. Mary, is an ancient edifice with a Saxon tower. The interior of the church has a brass of William Pirmes bearing date 1609. There is a chapel-of-ease at Little Farringdon. The parochial charities produce about £18 per annum. The Independents and Primitive Methodists have each a chapel."

"GRAFTON, a township in the parish of Langford, hundred of Bampton, county Oxford, 2 miles S.E. of Langford, and 3 S.W. of Bampton-in-the-Bush. A tributary of the river Isis flows through this place."

"LITTLE FARINGDON, a hamlet in the parish of Langford, hundred of Faringdon, county Oxford, 1.5 mile N.E. of Lechlade, and 6 miles N. W. of Great Faringdon. Here is an ancient chapel, of Norman architecture. The living is a curacy annexed to the vicarage of Langford, in the diocese of Oxford."

"RADCUTT, (or Radcot), a hamlet in the parish of Langford, hundred of Bampton, county Oxford, 2 miles S.W. of Bampton-in-the-Bush, and 4 N.E. of Lechlade. It is situated on the Thames, near the ancient three-arched bridge, where, in 1387, Robert de Vere, the favourite of Richard IL, was defeated by the Duke of Gloucester."

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

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