Description
Oxenton, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire, on an affluent of the river Severn, adjacent to the boundary with Worcestershire, 2 1/2 miles SE of Ashchurch station on the M.R., and 4 1/2 E by S of Tewkesbury. Post town. Cheltenham ; money order office, Bishop's Cleeve; telegraph office, Ashchurch (R.S.) Acreage of parish, 1114; population, 120. Oxenton Hill is 733 feet high. The manor belongs to the Earl of Coventry. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £89. Patron, the Earl of Coventry. The church is a small Norman edifice, and has a mausoleum attached, in which the Earl of Ellenborough was buried in 1871.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
