KINGSTON-BAGPUIZE, a parish in Abingdon district, Berks; between the Whitehorse vale and the river Isis, 6 miles W of Abingdon r. station. It has a postoffice, of the name of Kingston, under Abingdon. Acres, 1, 097. Real property, £2, 134. Pop., 283. Houses, 64. The property is much subdivided. The manor was given, by William the Conqueror, to Sir Richard Bagpuize; and, with Kingston House, belongs now to John B. Jenkins, Esq. At Newbridge, on the Isis here, the parliamentary army suffered a repulse in 1644. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £380.* Patron, St. John's College, Oxford. The church was rebuilt in 1799. A free school is here for 20 boys, from four parishes; and there are charities £34.

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