Wardington, Oxfordshire

Description
Wardington, a parish in Oxfordshire, on the borders of Northamptonshire, 2 miles from Cropredy station on the Oxford and Birmingham line of the G.W.R., and 4 1/2 from Banbury. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office, under Banbury. Acreage, 2670; population of the civil parish, 658; of the ecclesiastical, 594. There is a parish council consisting of six members. The manor belongs to the Cartwright family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; gross value, £247, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford. The church, restored in 1887, is a small ancient building of stone chiefly of the Early English and Decorated periods, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, lady chapel, vestry, S porch, and a Perpendicular embattled western tower. There is a Wesleyan chapel.