Ramsden, Oxfordshire

Description
Chadlington, a township in the parish of Charlbury, Oxfordshire. It stands near the river Evenlode and the Oxford and Worcester section of the G.W.R., 4 miles NW by N of Charlbury station, and 3 1/2 SSE of Chipping-Norton, and has a post and money order office under Charlbury; telegraph office, Charlbury. Acreage, 3450 ; population of the township, 685 ; of the ecclesiastical parish with Shorthamp-ton and Charlbury, 2361. The living is a chapelry annexed with that of Shorthampton to the vicarage of Charlbury; joint gross yearly value, £500. Patron, St John's College, Oxford. The church is a building of stone, principally of the Early English and Decorated periods. There is a Baptist chapel, erected in 1842, and a Roman Catholic chapel, erected in 1881. Langton House is a fine country seat, standing at an elevation of nearly 500 feet above sea level, commanding very beautiful views over the surrounding country.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5