Description
Shelswell, a parish in Oxfordshire, 4 miles SSE of Brackley station on the L. & N.W.R., and 5 N by E of Bicester. Post town, Bicester; money order office, Fringford; telegraph office, Stratton Audley. Acreage, 822; population, 17. Shelswell Park, a fine mansion of stone erected in 1877 and surrounded by a park of about 230 acres, is the seat of the Slater-Harrison family, who are lords of the manor and sole landowners. The living is a rectory, annexed to Newton Purcell. There is no church.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
