DUCKLINGTON, a village and a parish in Witney district, Oxford. The village stands on the river Wind-rush, 1½ mile S of Witney town and r. station. Pop., 472. Houses, 100. The parish includes also the hamlet of Hardwicke; and its post town is Witney. Acres, 2, 440. Real property, £4, 387. Pop., 606. Houses, 128. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxfo-Value, £535.* Patron, Magdalene College, Oxford. The church is later English; has a rich south aisle, with oak carvings; and contains a Norman font and a remarkable altar-piece. There are a chapel of ease and charities £18.

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