Description
Coxwell, Great, a village and a parish in Berks, 1 1/2 mile SW of Faringdon station on the G.W R., and 4 miles NE by N of Shrivenham, with a post office under Faringdon; money order and telegraph office, Faringdon. Acreage, 1435; population, 317. The manor belonged to Beaulieu Abbey, and a barn built by the abbots, measuring 156 feet by 45, with walls 4 feet thick, is still standing. Limestone is found. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net yearly value, £122 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Oxford. The church, which is an ancient building of stone, has two brasses, and is good. There is a Congregational chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
