Description
Salford, a parish, with a village, in Oxfordshire, 2 miles WNW of Chipping Norton station on the West Midland section of the G.W.R. Post town and money order and-telegraph office, Chipping Norton. Acreage, 1567; population, 347. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The manor, with most of the land, belongs to the Dawkins family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; gross value, £298 with residence. The church, which was partly rebuilt in 1855, is a building of stone in mixed styles, chiefly Early English, but with Norman, Perpendicular, and Geometrical portions, consisting of chancel, nave, N aisle, S porch, and an embattled western tower. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
