Charlbury, Oxfordshire

Description
Charlbury, a small town and a parish in Oxfordshire. The town stands on an eminence, adjacent to the river Evenlode, and to the Oxford and Worcester section of the G.W.R., near Cornbury Park and Wychwood Forest, 7 miles SE of Chipping Norton, and has a station on the railway, a post, money order, and telegraph office (S.O.), a bank, a church, Baptist and Wesleyan chapels, a Friends' meetinghouse, and an endowed grammar school. The church is variously Norman, Early English, and Decorated, has a tower of the 13th century, and contains monuments of the Jenkin-sons of Walcot. The grammar-school has £40 a year from endowment, with two exhibitions at Brasenose College. A weekly market is held on Friday; fairs are held on 1 January, and there is also a cattle fair on the first Monday in each month. The parish contains also the hamlets of Walcot, Chadlington, Chilson or Shorthampton.andPudlicot. Acreage, 2572; population of the civil parish, 1478; of the ecclesiastical, 2361. The manor belonged to the Mercian kings; was given by them to the Bishops of Lincoln; passed to the Abbey of Ensham; and went after the dissolution to St John's College, Oxford, with whom it remained until by exchange it became the property of Lord Churchill. The living is a vicarage, united to the perpetual curacies of Shorthampton and Chadlington, in the diocese of Oxford; joint net yearly value, £500 with residence. Patron, St John's College, Oxford. The vicarage of Finstock is a separate benefice.