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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Heythrop like this:
HEYTHROP, a parish in Chipping-Norton district, Oxford; on a headstream of the river Glyme, 3 miles E by N of Chipping-Norton r. station. It includes the hamlet of Dunthrop; and its post town is ChippingNorton. Acres, 1, 664. Real property, £941. Pop., in 1851, 190; in 1861, 122. Houses, 27. ...
The property belongs to the Earl of Shrewsbury. Heythrop House, formerly the Earl's seat, was burnt in 1831; and the ruins of it, in picturesque aspect, still stand in the finely wooded park. The Heythrop hounds are kennelled in the parish. A Carthusian monastery was founded here, in 1222 by William Longespée, and removed to Hinton in Somerset. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £129. Patron, the Earl of Shrewsbury. The church is partly Norman; contains a good brass of 1521, on a panelled tomb; and was recently in disrepair. There is a Roman Catholic chapel, a handsome modern edifice.
Heythrop 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 Heythrop itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Heythrop, in West Oxfordshire and Oxfordshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/9850
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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