CHADLINGTON, a village, a chapelry, a tything, and a hundred, in Oxford. The village stands near the river Evenlode and the Oxford and Worcester railway, 2½ miles NW by N of Charlbury r. station, and 3½ SSE of Chipping-Norton; and has a post office under Enstone. The chapelry includes the village, and bears the name of East Chadlington. The tything lies a mile to the NW, and bears the name of West Chadlington; and both are in Charlbury parish. Acres of both, 3,300. Real property, of E. Chadlington, £1,385; of W. Chadlington, £3,520. Pop. of both, 753. Houses, 157. The chapelry living is annexed to the vicarage of Charlbury. The church is ancient. There are a Baptist chapel and a national school.-The hundred extends to the boundary with Warwick and Gloucester; and contains twenty-three parishes, and part of another. Acres, 67,695. Pop. in 1851, 13,804; in 1861, 13,837. Houses, 2,986.

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