Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CHURCHILL

CHURCHILL, a parish in Chipping-Norton district, Oxford; on the Chipping-Norton railway, 1¾ mile NE of Chipping-Norton Junction r. station, and 3 SW of Chipping-Norton. It has a post office under Chipping-Norton. Acres, 2, 850. Real property, £4, 081. Pop., 642. Houses, 123. The property is chiefly in one estate. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £177. Patron, the Earl of Ducie. The church is good; and there are charities £18. Warren Hastings was a native.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Churchill Parish       Chipping Norton Poor Law Union/Registration District       Oxfordshire Ancient County
Place: Churchill

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