Description
Finstock, a township and a chapelry in Charlbury parish, Oxford. The township lies near the river Evenlode, 2 1/2 miles SSW of Charlbury station on the G.W.R., and 5 N of Witney. The chapelry includes also the township of Fawler, bears the name of Finstock and Fawler, and was constituted in 1860. It has a post office under Oxford; money order and telegraph office, Charlbury, under Oxford. Acreage, 883; population of the township, 504; of the chapelry of Finstock-with-Fawler, 676. The living is a vicarage, united with Fawler, in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £137. Patron, St John's College, Oxford. The church is modern, and there is a Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
