KINGHAM, a village and a parish in Chipping-Norton district, Oxford. The village stands near the river Evenlode, the boundary with Gloucester and the Chipping-Norton junction station of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton railway, 4½ miles SW of ChippingNorton; was anciently known as Konigsham; and has a postal pillar box, under Chipping-Norton. The parish comprises 1,877 acres. Real property, £4, 080. Pop., 678. Houses, 145. The property is subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Valne, £820.* Patron, the Rev. J. W. Lockwood. The church is ancient, but good; and has a tower. There are a national school, and charities £36.

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