WOOTTON, a village, a parish, and a hundred, in Oxford. The village stands on the river Glyme, 2¼ miles N by W of Woodstock, and 3 W by N of Kirtlington r. station; and has a post-office under Woodstock.—The parish includes part of Woodstock town, and is in Woodstock district. Acres, 3,720. Real property, £5,954. Pop., 1,238. Houses, 269. The manor belongs to the Duke of Marlborough. Woodleys and Hollybank are chief residences. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £800.* Patron, New College, Oxford. The church is good; and there are two Methodist chapels, endowed schools for boys and girls, and charities £25.-The hundred contains 35 parishes. Acres, 67,590. Pop., 23,011. Houses, 4,901.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))