OAKLEY, a village and a parish in the district of Thame and county of Buckingham. The village stands 2 miles S of Muswell hill at the boundary with Oxford, and 5½ N W of Thame r. station; and has a post-office under Thame. The parish comprises 2, 250 acres. Real property, £3, 680. Pop., 420. Houses, 91. The property is subdivided. The manor and much of the land belong to Mrs. Ricketts. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £300. Patron, Mrs. Ricketts. The church is ancient and decayed; has a W low tower, surmounted at the S E angle by a stair-turret with a bold finial; and contains monuments of Admiral Tyrrel and James Tyrrel, author of a " History of England." There are poors' pasture-lands with £80 a year, and other charities £20.

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