RISSINGTON (Great), a parish, with a village, in Stow-on-the-Wold district, Gloucester; between the river Windrush and the boundary with Gloucester, 3¼ miles S S E of Bourton-on-the-Water r. station, and 5 N W of Burford. Post-town, Burford, under Faringdon. Acres, 2, 420. Real property, £3, 896. Pop., 499. Houses, 112. The manor belongs to Lord Dynevor. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £800.* Patron, Lord Dynevor. The church isvariously Norman, early English, decorated, and perpendicular. There are a slightly endowed national school, and charities £12.

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