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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Glympton like this:
GLYMPTON, a parish in Woodstock district, Oxford; on the river Glyme, 3½ miles NNW of Woodstock, and 4 NW of Kirtlington r. station. Post town, Kiddington, under Woodstock. Acres, 1, 232. Real property, £1, 226. Pop., 153. Houses, 34. The property is all in one estate. Glympton Park is the seat of E. Way, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £258.* Patron, E. Way, Esq. The church is good; and has a fine monument to Thomas Teasdale, who founded Pembroke college in Oxford.
Glympton is now part of WEST OXFORDSHIRE District. Click here for graphs and data of how WEST OXFORDSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Glympton itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Glympton, in West Oxfordshire and Oxfordshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/9695
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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