Description
Wheatley, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Cuddesdon civil parish, Oxfordshire. The village stands on the Wycombe and Oxford branch of the G.W.R., on which it has a station, 5 1/2 miles E by S of Oxford. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Oxford, and several good inns. Acreage of township, 990; population, 920. There is an urban district council consisting of nine members. The manor belongs to the Chillingworth family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £219 with residence. The church was built in 1857, and has a lofty spire finished in 1868. There are a Congregational chapel and an endowed church school.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
