RADLEY, a village and a parish in Abingdon district, Berks. The village stands adjacent to the Oxford railway, near the river Thames, 1 mile N of Culham r.station, and 2½ N E of Abingdon; and has a post-office under Abingdon. The parish contains also the liberty of Thrupp and Wick, and part of the township of Kennington. Acres, 2, 994. Real property, inclusive of therest of K., £5, 560. Pop. exc. of the rest of K., 484. Houses, 94. The manor belonged to Abingdon abbey, went, after the dissolution, to G. Stonehouse, Esq., passed, in 1792, to Capt. afterwards Admiral Bowyer; and, with R. Hall and most of the land, belongs now to Sir G. Bowyer, Bart. The living is a donative in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £75. Patron, Sir G. Bowyer, Bart. The church is later English, and contains an alabaster altar-tomb of Sir W. and Lady Stonehouse. St. Peter's college is a large Church of England-school for the upper classes; was founded in 1847; and includesdormitories and a beautiful chapel. There is also a village school.

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