IPSDEN, a village and a parish in Henley district, Oxford. The village stands close to the Chiltern hills, near Icknield street, and 4 miles SE of Wallingford and 3 E by N of Wallingford-Road r. station; and is a picturesque place. The parish includes the liberty of StokeRow, and comprises 3, 374 acres. Post town, Wallingford. Real property, £3, 584. Pop., 623. Houses, 132. Much of the land belongs to Edward Reade, Esq. Ipsden heath is a meet for the Oxfordshire harriers. A well near Bevenshill, in Stoke-Row liberty, is supposed to be of Roman origin; and a child was abandoned in that well in April 1860, by its unnatural mother, and, after lying there two days and nights without food, was taken out alive. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of North Stoke, in the diocese of Oxford. The church has Norman traces, and is variously early English, decorated, and perpendicular. The p. curacy of Stoke-Row is a separate benefice. Charities, £12 and four acres of land.

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