NORTON-BRIZE, a parish in Witney district, Oxford; 3 miles N N W of Bampton-in-the-Bush, and 4 W S W of Witney r. station. Post-town, Bampton, under Faringdon. Acres, 3, 140. Real property, £4, 106. Pop., 716. Houses, 156. The manor, with the Manor House, belongs to John Worley, Esq. Marsh-Haddon is the residence of W. Morley, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £300.* Patron, Christchurch, Oxford. The church is early English, with a Norman doorway; comprises nave, N aisle, and chancel, with a tower; and contains a piscina, sedilia, and a curious armed effigies of J. D' Aubigne of 1346. Charities, £5.

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