Description
Stadhampton, a parish in Oxfordshire, on the river Thame, 6 miles E by N of Culham station on the Reading and Oxford section of the G.W.R., and 7 N of Wallingford. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Wallingford. Acreage, 623; population, 276. The manor and most of the land belongs to the Franklin family. The living is a vicarage, annexed to Chiselhampton, in the diocese of Oxford; joint gross value, £160 with residence. The church is a small edifice of stone partly Perpendicular, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and a western tower. There is a Baptist chapel. Dean Owen, chaplain to Cromwell, was a native.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
