TEW (Great), a parish, with a village, in Chipping-Norton district, Oxford; 5½ miles ENE of Chipping-Norton r. station. It has a post-office under Enstone-Acres, 3,140. Real property, £5,061. Pop., 454. Houses, 94. The manor belonged to the Raynsfords; passed to the Tanfields, the Falklands, the Kecks and others; and, with Great Tew House, belongs now to M. P. Boulton, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £134.* Patron, M. P. Boulton, Esq. The church is chiefly early and later English. There are a national school, and charities £36.

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