CROWMARSH-GIFFORD, a parish in the district of Wallingford, and county of Oxford; on the river Thames, adjacent on the east to Wallingford r. station, and 13-miles SSE of Oxford. It has a post office of the name of Crowmarsh, under Wallingford. Acres, 662. Real property, £1, 708. Pop., 360. Houses, 73. The manor belonged, at Domesday, to W. Giffard. A small hospital was founded here about the middle of the 13th century. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £247.* Patron, Lord Barrington. The church is partly Norman.

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