Description
Chiselhampton, a parish in Oxfordshire, on the river Thame, 4 miles S from Littlemore station on the G.W.R., and 7 1/4 SE of Oxford. Post town, Wallingford; money order and telegraph office, Stadhampton. Acreage, 939; population of the civil parish, 114; of the ecclesiastical, 390. Chiselhampton House is a fine mansion standing in its own grounds. The long bridge of Chiselhampton, now much altered and widened, was defended by Hampden against Prince Rupert on the morning of the fight of Chalgrove. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Stadhampton, in the diocese of Oxford; joint gross yearly value, £160. The church, a small building of stone, was erected in 1762.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
