Description
Chesterton, Great, a parish in Oxfordshire, on Akeman Street and a branch of the river Bay, 1 1/4 mile WSW of Bicester, which is the post town. Acreage, 2527; population, 384. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £120. Patron, New College, Oxford. The church is Transition Norman in the nave, mixed Decorated and Perpendicular English in the chancel, and has a Decorated tower, and three fine Early English sedilia. Chesterton is a fine mansion of stone erected in 1889-90.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
