Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for GLYMPTON

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.


(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: Glympton AP/CP       Woodstock RegD/PLU       Oxfordshire AncC
Place: Glympton

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