Description
Tadmarton, a parish, with a village, in Oxfordshire, 4 1/2 miles WSW of Banbury, and 3 from Bloxham station on the Banbury and Cheltenham branch of the G.W.R. It has a post office under Banbury; money order and telegraph office, Swalcliffe. Acreage, 2070; population, 320. There are an ancient camp and two tumuli, and Roman coins have been found. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £249 with residence. Patron, Worcester College, Oxford. The church, dedicated to St Nicholas, is an ancient edifice of stone in mixed styles, Norman, Early English, and Perpendicular, consisting of chancel, nave, N aisle, N porch, and an embattled western tower. It was restored at a cost of £1250 in 1893.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
