STANDLAKE, a parish, with a village, in Witney district, Oxford; on the river Windrush, near the Thames, 3 miles S by W of South Leigh r. station, and 5½ SSE of Witney. It has a post-office under Witney. Acres, 2,495. Real property, £4,322. Pop., 822. Houses, 174. The property is subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £373.* Patron, Magdalen College, Oxford. The church is early English, and has an octagonal tower. There are chapels for Baptists and Primitive Methodists, an endowed school, and charities £82.

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