Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WARDINGTON

WARDINGTON, a chapelry, with two hamlets, in Cropredy parish, Oxford; 1¾ mile ESE of Cropredy r. station. It has a post-office under Banbury. Acres, 2,600. Real property, £4,546. Pop. in 1851, 862; in 1861, 732. Houses, 183. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £135.* Patron, the Bishop of O. The church is ancient but good. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a national school, and charities £8.


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

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Feature Description: "a chapelry, with two hamlets"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Cropredy AP/CP       Wardington CP/Ch       Oxfordshire AncC
Place: Wardington

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