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KIDLINGTON, a village and a parish in Woodstock district, Oxford. The village stands on the river Cherwell and the Oxford canal, 1¼ mile E of the Oxford and Wolverhampton railway, 2 miles W by N of the Islip station of the West Midland railway, and 5 N of Oxford city; is a large place; and has a post office‡ under Oxford, and a public reading room and library. The parish includes also the hamlets of Gosford, Thrup, and Water-Eaton: and contains the Woodstock-Road r. station. Acres, 5, 010. Real property, £11, 403. Pop., 1, 507. Houses, 340. The property is much subdivided. The manor belonged to Thomas Chaucer, son of the poet. The living is a vicarage, united with the chapelry of Water-Eaton, in the diocese of Oxford; and is annexed to the rectorship of Exeter College, Oxford. Value, £279.* The church is large and cruciform, chiefly of the 15th century, by ranging from Norman to later English; has an early English tower, with later English spire; and contains curiously carved old oak pews, and a memorial window of 1858 to the Rev. Dr. Richards. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a national school, almshouses with £13, and other charities, £13.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Kidlington CP/AP Woodstock RegD/PLU Oxfordshire AncC |
| Place: | Kidlington |
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