Description
Cassington, a village and a parish in Oxfordshire. The village stands near the river Isis, 2 miles ENE from Eynsham station on the G.W.R., 4 1/2 miles S from Woodstock, and 6 NW of Oxford. The parish includes also the hamlet of Worton, and its post town is Oxford; money order and telegraph office, Eyneham. Acreage, 2299 ; population, 356. The manor belonged anciently to the Montacutes, and had a castle. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net yearly value, £100. Patron, Christ Church, Oxford. The church was built by Geoffrey de Clinton, chamberlain to Henry II., and is an erection of stone in mixed styles, chiefly Norman.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
