NEWINGTON (South), a village and a parish in Banbury district, Oxford. The village stands on the river Swere, 4 miles W N W of Deddington, and 6¼ W by N of Aynho r. station; and has a post-office under Banbury. The parish comprises 1, 460 acres. Real property, £3, 188. Pop., 400. Houses, 93. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs to the Earl of Shrewsbury. The living is a vicarage in-the diocese of Oxford. Value, £250.* Patron, Exeter College, Oxford. The churchstands on an eminence; shows features of Norman, early English, decorated, and perpendicular architecture; and is a good and handsome edifice, with a tower. There are a Wesleyan chapel and a national school.

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