Description
Piddington, a parish, with a village, in Oxfordshire, under Muswell Hill, at the boundary with Bucks, 5 1/2 miles SE of Bicester station on the Oxford and Bletchley branch of the L. & N.W.R. Post town, Thame; money order and telegraph office, Brill. Acreage, 2354; population, 280. The manor belongs to the Aubrey family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; gross value, £300 with residence. The church, which dates from the 15th century, is a building of stone partly in the Decorated and partly in the Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave, S aisle, and an embattled western tower. It has a brass of 1613 and an ancient cup-shaped font.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
