Standlake, Oxfordshire

Description
Standlake, a parish, with a village, in Oxfordshire, on the river Windrush, near the Thames, 4 1/2 miles S by W of South Leigh station on the G.W.R., and 4 1/2 SSE of Witney. It has a post office under Witney; money order office, Longworth; telegraph office, Kingston Bagpuze. Acreage, 2624; population, 619. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The manor belongs to Magdalen College, Oxford. A British settlement was discovered about 1837, but no remains are now to be seen. There is an interesting moated house called Gaunt House, which was garrisoned for King Charles, and stood a siege for some time. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £267 with residence. Patron, Magdalen College, Oxford. The church is an ancient cruciform building of stone in mixed styles, consisting of chancel, transepts, nave, aisles, S porch, and a western tower surmounted by an octagonal spire. There are Baptist and Primitive Methodist chapels, and an endowed school.