Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LEIGH (SOUTH)

LEIGH (SOUTH), a parish in Witney district, Oxford; on the Witney and Oxford railway, 2¾ miles E by S of Witney. It has a station on the railway; and its posttown is Witney. Acres, 2,074. Real property, £3,163. Pop., 319. Houses, 61. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Stanton-Harcourt, in the diocese of Oxford. The church is a small plain building, with a tower; and was the first in which John Wesley. preached. Charities, £12.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: South Leigh Ch/CP       Witney RegD/PLU       Oxfordshire AncC
Place names: LEIGH     |     LEIGH SOUTH     |     SOUTH LEIGH
Place: South Leigh

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