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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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CHASTLETON, a parish in Chipping-Norton district, Oxford; on the verge of the county, 2 miles N of Addlestrop r. station, and 3½ SE of Moreton-in-the-Marsh. Post town, Moreton-in-the-Marsh. Acres, 1, 769. Real property, £3, 395. Pop., 218. Houses, 43. Most of the property is in one estate. Chastleton House is a fine Tudor edifice, of the time of James I. A cireular camp is near it; and a four-sided stone, 9 feet high, called the Four Shire Stone, with names of the counties of Oxford, Gloucester, Worcester, and Warwick cut on its sides, is on the boundary, at the meeting-point of these counties, 2 miles E of Moreton. A great battle was fought, in 1016, between Canute and Edmund Iron-side, with severe defeat to the former, somewhere in Chastleton, and most probably round the site of the Four Shire Stone. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £518. Patron, Rev. G. H. Nutting. The church is good; and there are charities £23.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Chastleton AP/CP Chipping Norton RegD/PLU Oxfordshire AncC |
| Place: | Chastleton |
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