NOKE, a parish, with a village, in Bicester district, Oxfordshire; on the river Ray, 1½ mile S E of Islip r.station, and 5 N N E of Oxford. Post-town, Oxford. Acres, 794. Real property, £1, 263. Pop., 116. Houses, 30. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to the Duke of Marlborough. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £100.* Patron, the Duke of Marlborough. The church is early English; consists of nave and chancel, with small belfry; contains a brass of 1598; and was reported in 1859 as not very good. There are a national school, and charities £3.

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