Cropredy, Warwickshire

Description
Cropredy, a village and a parish in Oxfordshire. The village adjoins the Cherwell river, the Oxford Canal, and the Oxford and Birmingham section of the G.W.R., near the boundaries with Warwick and Northampton, 4 miles N of Banbury, and has a station on the railway, and a post and money order office under Leamington Spa, with a telegraph office at the railway station. The parish includes the ecclesiastical parishes of Great and Little Bourton and Claydon, noticed separately, and the lordship of Prescote on the borders of Northamptonshire. Acreage, 1828 of land and "of water; population of Cropredy with Prescote, 476. A battle was fought here in 1644 between the Royalists and the Parliamentarians, when the latter were defeated. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; value, £231 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Oxford. The church is a fine building of stone in the style of the 14th and 15th centuries, and has monuments of the Danvers and Gostelows. The register begins in 1538. There is a Wesleyan chapel.