Pyrton, Oxfordshire

Description
Pyrton, a village and a parish in Oxfordshire. The village stands near the Chiltern Hills, 1 mile N of Watlington 1/2 half a mile W of Watlington station on the Princes Risborough and Watlington branch of the G.W.R., and 7 miles NE of Wallingford, and was anciently called Peritone. The parish contains also the hamlets of Clare, Assendon, Golder, Portways, and Standhill. Post town, Tetworth. Acreage, 4847; population of the civil parish, 557; of the ecclesiastical, 337. For parish council purposes the civil parish is divided mto two wards-Assendon returning two and Lower Pyrton four members. The manor was held at Domesday by Hugh Lupus, and belongs now to Lord Camoys, the Earl of Macclesfield, and the Hamersley family. Stonor Park, the property of Lord Camoys, is an ancient Tudor mansion of red brick standing in a beautiful deer park of from 200 to 300 acres. The Warren is a small modern mansion of red brick, and the manor house, situate in Lower Pyrton, is an ancient Tudor mansion which was built in the reign of Elizabeth. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £234 with residence. Patron, Christchurch, Oxford. The church was rebuilt in 1856, and is in the Early English style. There is a Roman Catholic chapel at Assendon. John Hampden was married in the old church to Miss Symeon, whose father then occupied the manor house; and Rose, the author of an " Essay on Universal Language," was a native. The hamlet of Upper Assendon is noticed separately.