Nuffield, Oxfordshire

Description
Nuffield, a parish, with a village, in Oxfordshire, among the Chiltern Hills, 4 miles ESE of Wallingford station on the G.W.R., and 7 1/2 NW by W of Henley-on-Thames. Post town, Henley-on-Thames; money order and telegraph office, Nettlebed. Acreage, 2104; population, 236. The manor belongs to the Langham family. A Trinitarian friary was founded here before 1360. Nuffield Common rises to an altitude of 757 feet above sea-level. The living is a rectory :n the diocese of Oxford; net value, £227 with residence. The church, a building of flint, rubble, and stone in the Decorated style, is partly ancient and was partly rebuilt by Ferrey in 1850, has a tower, and contains a cup-shaped font of the 13th century, with an inscription in Lombardic characters round the upper part-"Fonte sacro lotum vel mnndat gracia totum, Vel non est sacri mundacio plena lavseri."