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A vision of Britain through time
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BLOXHAM, a village, a parish, a subdistrict, and a hundred in Oxford. The village stands 3½ miles SW of Banbury r. station; and has a post office‡ under Banbury. The parish is shown in the Census as including the chapelry of Milcombe. Acres, 4,240. Real property, £10,962. Pop., 1,607. Houses, 369. Bloxham Grove is occupied by the Rev. G. Warriner. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £290.* Patron, Eton College. The church is a fine edifice of mixed styles, from Norman to late English; has a very beautiful decorated spire, 195 feet high; was restored in 1865, at great cost; and contains monuments of the Griffiths and the Thorneycrofts. The vicarage of Milcombe is a separate benefice. There are a Wesleyan chapel built in 1868, a Baptist chapel, a very large middle class school in the collegiate style, enlarged in 1864, an endowed school with £30 a year, and charities £390.-The subdistrict contains six parishes; and is in Banbury district. Acres, 18,770. Pop. 6,216. Houses, 1,490.-'The hundred contains eleven parishes and parts of two others. Acres, 29,770. Pop., 8,855. Houses, 2,111.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village, a parish, a subdistrict, and a hundred" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Bloxham AP/CP Bloxham Hundred Bloxham SubD Oxfordshire AncC |
| Place: | Bloxham |
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