Description
Lyford, an ecclesiastical parish formed in 1845 from the civil parish of Hanney, Berks, on the river Ock, in White-horse Vale, 4 miles NNW of Wantage Road station on the G.W.R., and 5 N of Wantage. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Wantage. Population, 147. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £100 with residence. Patron, Worcester College, Oxford. The church is a small building of stone of the Early English period, and there are almshouses, founded in 1611 with an endowment of about £220 a year for twenty poor persons. The manor, with most of the land, belongs to Worcester College, Oxford.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
