Little Rollright, Oxfordshire

Description
Rollright, Little, a parish in Oxfordshire, adjacent to Warwickshire, 2 1/2 miles NW of Chipping Norton station on the G.W.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Chipping Norton. Acreage, 627; population, 27. The manor belongs to the Bliss family. Part of a Druidical circle is here, originally comprising 60 stones, now comprising about 30, few of them rising more than 4 feet from the ground. A stone of singular shape, and about 8 feet high, is 252 feetN of the circle, bears the name of the King's Stone, and commands an extensive view. Five larger stones are about a quarter of a mile to the SE, and are supposed to have formed a kistvaen. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £110. The church is a small plain building of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting £ chancel, nave, S porch, and an ivy-covered western tower. It has two canopied altar-tombs and an ancient font.