Description
Bourton, Great and Little, a parish in Oxfordshire, 8 miles N of Banbury. It has a post office under Banbury, which is the money order office; telegraph office, Cropredy (R.S.), which is the station on the G.W.R. Acreage, 1669 of land and 12 of water; population, 449. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net yearly value, £294,in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford. The church, an edifice of stone in the Early English and Decorated styles, was built in 1863, on the site of a church formerly connected with a friary, but latterly turned into cottages and a schoolhouse. There are Congregational and Wesleyan chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
