Ipsden, Oxfordshire

Description
Ipsden, a village and a parish in Oxfordshire. The village stands close to the Chiltem Hills, near Icknield Street, 4 miles SE from Wallingford, and 3 NE from Moulsford station on the G.W.R., and is a picturesque place. The parish comprises 3427 acres; population, 754. It has a post office under Wallingford; money order and telegraph office, Wallingford. A well near Berin's Hill is supposed to be of Roman origin. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of North Stoke, together with the rectory of Newn-ham Murren, in the diocese of Oxford; joint net yearly value, £308. Patron, St John's College, Cambridge. The church has Norman traces, and is variously Early English, Decorated, and Perpendicular. Ipsden House is the chief residence.