Mixbury, Oxfordshire

Description
Mixbury, a village and a parish in Oxfordshire. The village stands near the boundary with Northamptonshire, the river Ouse, and the Banbury line of the L. & N.W.R., 2 miles SE of Brackley station, and 6 W by S of Buckingham, and has a post office under Brackley; money order and telegraph office, Brackley. The parish contains also th& hamlet of Fulwell, and formerly contained the township of Woolaston, which now forms part of the parish of Hethe. Acreage, 2449; population of the civil parish, 230; of the ecclesiastical, 239. The manor belonged at one time to Sir Piers Gaveston, the favourite of Edward II. Traces exist of an old moated castle built by D'Oiley in the reign of William the Conqueror, probably on the site of an ancient Roman encampment. This castle of Beaumont formed one of a chain of forts running through the Midlands, of which Oxford remains. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; gross value, £200 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Oxford. The church is an ancient building of stone of the Decorated period, consists of nave, N aisle, and chancel, with an embattled western tower, and contains a good Norman doorway with some curious Eunic crosses on the imposts. It was restored by the Rev. W. Jocelyn Palmer, for fifty years rector of Mixbury (from 1802 to 1852). Earl Sel-bome, his son, was born here. There is a monument to Sir John Wellesborne, a former lord of the manor, who was succeeded by the Bathurst family, from whom it passed to the Batsons.