FOREST-HILL, a parish in Headington district, Oxfordshire; 1½ mile NNW of Wheatley railway station, and 5 miles E by N of Oxford. Post town, Wheatley, under Oxford. Acres, 650. Real property, £1, 378. Pop., 191. Houses, 41. Mary Powell, the first wife of Milton, lived here, and was married here to Milton; and some parts of her father's house are still standing. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £85.* Patron, Lincoln College, Oxford. The church stands on a hill; is covered with ivy; and has a stone font under a neat wooden cover. Mickle, the poet, resided in the neighbourhood, and was buried in the churchyard.

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