In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Spelsbury like this:
SPELSBURY, a parish, with a village and four hamlets, in Chipping-Norton district, Oxford; 1½ mile NNW of Charlbury r. station. Post town, Enstone. Acres, 3,900. Real property, 3,522. Pop., 516. Houses, 112. The property is divided among four. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £211.* Patron, Christchurch, Oxford. The church is good; and there are a free-school, and charities £12.
Spelsbury through time
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