Description
Bloxham, a village and a parish in Oxfordshire. The village stands 3 miles SW of Banbury, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Banbury, and a station ou the Banbury and Cheltenham Direct railway. Acreage of parish, 3142 ; population, 1340. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £165 with residence. 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 1866 at great cost, and contains monuments of the Griffiths and the Thorneycrofts. There are a Wesleyan chapel built in 1868, a Baptist chapel, a very large middle class school in the collegiate style, and charities £280.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
