North Leigh, Oxfordshire

Description
Leigh, North, a village and a parish in Oxfordshire. The village stands 1 1/2 mile SE of Akeman Street, 3 1/2 miles W by S of Handborough station on the G.W.R., and 3 NE by N of Witney. It has a post office under Witney; money order and telegraph office, Witney. The parish contains also the hamlets of Newyatt and East End. Acreage, 2423; population of the civil parish, 737; of the ecclesiastical, 748. The manor belongs to the Duke of Marl-borough. A Roman villa, 212 feet by 167, a tessellated pavement, a hypocaust, coins of Claudius, and other Roman relics, were found in the parish in 1813-16. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £200 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church, a fragment of a larger building, is an ancient and interesting edifice of stone in the Norman, Early English, and Decorated styles, has a low square Norman tower, and contains a Norman font, a fine alabaster figured altar-tomb, and several other monuments. There are Primitive Methodist and Wes-leyan chapels. Osney Hill or Horse-on-the-Hill, formerly an extra-parochial tract here, is now a parish.