WITTENHAM (Long), a parish, with a village, in Wallingford district, Berks; on the Thames, 2¾ miles NNE of Didcot r. station, and 5 NW of Wallingford. It has a post-office under Abingdon. Acres, 2,280. Real property, £3,832. Pop., 583. Houses, 127. The manor belongs to St. John's College, Oxford. The Manor house is occupied by W. T. Hayward, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £166.* Patron, Exeter College, Oxford. The church ranges from Norman to Tudor; and was restored, and the chancel rebuilt, in 1850. There are a national school, and charities £30.

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