Wigginton, Oxfordshire

Description
Wigginton, a parish, with a village, in Oxfordshire, on the river Swere, 6 1/2 miles SW of Banbury, and 2 E from Hook Norton station on the Banbury and Cheltenham branch of the G.W.R. It has a post office under Banbury; money order and telegraph office, Hook Norton. Acreage, 1187; population, 245. There is a parish council consisting of five members. Extensive Roman remains, including a semi-octagonal chamber 20 feet by 14, with tessellated pavement, and another apartment 20 feet by 17 1/4, were discovered in 1824. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £340 with residence. Patron, Jesus College, Oxford. The church is a plain edifice of stone chiefly of the Early English period. It contains some ancient tombs and monuments. It was restored in 1870 and 1886. There is a Wesleyan chapel.