RISSINGTON (Little), a parish, with a village, in Stow-on-the-Wold district, Gloucester; 2 miles S E of Bourton-on-the-Water r. station. Post-town, Burford, under Faringdon. Acres, 1, 300. Real property, £2, 244. Pop., 290. Houses, 60. The manor, with a recent Tudor mansion, belongs to J. Bennett, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £430.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church isvariously Norman, early English, decorated, and perpendicular; and was restored in 1850 and 1865. There is an endowed national school.

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