Description
Sarsden, a village and a parish in Oxfordshire, on the river Evenlode, 2 miles E of Chipping Norton Junction station on the G.W.R. Post town, Chipping Norton; money order and telegraph office, Churchill. Acreage of the civil parish, 1431; population, 175; of the ecclesiastical, with Churchill, 723. The manor with Sarsden House, a fine country mansion standing in a park of 40 acres, belongs to the Earl of Durie, who is sole landowner. There is a Saxon or Danish camp. The living is a rectory, united with Churchill, in the diocese of Oxford. Patron, Earl Dncie. The church is a small but ancient cruciform building of stone, consisting of chancel and nave, with short transepts and bell-turret.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
