Description
Clanfield, a village and a parish in Oxfordshire, adjacent to the Thames, 2 miles SE from Alvescot station on the G.W.R., with a post office under Faringdon; money order and telegraph office, Bampton. Acreage, 1789 ; population, 429. Radcot Bridge, in the parish of Lanford, over the Thames was the scene of the Earl of Oxford's defeat in 1387. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net yearly value, £65 with residence. The church is Early English, and consists of nave, north aisle, chancel, and chantry, with west tower and south porch. There are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
