Description
Fyfield, a parish in Berks, near the river Isis, at the boundary with Oxford, 5 miles W by N of Abingdon town and station on the G.W.R., and containing the hamlets of Netherton and Fyfield Wick. It has a post office under Abingdon; money order office, Marcham; telegraph office, Kingston Bagpuze. Acreage, 1603 ; population, 303. An hospital was founded here before the time of Henry VI. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net yearly value, £110 with residence. Patron, St John's College,. Oxford. The church is a building of stone, chiefly in the Middle and Third Pointed styles, and contains the tomb and; effigies of Sir John Golafre, popularly called Gulliver. There is a small Baptist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
