Wytham, Berkshire

Description
Wytham, a parish in Berks, 2 1/2 miles NNW of Oxford station on the G.W. R. It has a post omce under Oxford; money order and telegraph office, Oxford. Acreage, 1179; population of the civil parish, 225; of the ecclesiastical, 248. The manor, with all the land, belongs to the Earl of Abingdon. Wytham Abbey, the seat of the Earl of Abingdon, is an ancient mansion, originally erected in the reign of Henry VI., but now chiefly in the Elizabethan style. It contains a fine collection of pictures. Wytham Wood has an area of about 700 acres. A castle of the Saxon kings stood on Wytham Hill. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £130 with residence, in the gift of the Earl of Abingdon. The church, rebuilt in 1811, is a building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, N porch, and an embattled western tower.