Milton under Wychwood, Oxfordshire

Description
Milton-under-Wychwood, a village, a township, and a parish in Oxfordshire. The village stands 1 1/2 mile WSW of Shipton station on the Oxford and Worcester section of the G.W.R., 3 miles E of the boundary with Gloucestershire, 4 N by E of Burford, and 7 SW from Chipping Norton. It is a considerable place, and has a post and money order office under Chipping Norton ; telegraph offioe, Shipton (E.S.) The township comprises 2080 acres; population, 878; of the ecclesiastical parish, with Broern and Lyneham, 1128. There is a parish council consisting of eight members. The manor belongs to the Earl of Ducie. There are large stone quarries here, and it is said that stone from them was used in the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral, London. The church, erected in 1854 from designs by the late G. E. Street, R.A., is a building of stone in the Geometrical Decorated style, and there are Baptist, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan chapels. On account of its salubrity Milton has become a fashionable resort for summer visitors. BRUERN and LYNEHAM are noticed separately.