Pusey, Berkshire

Description
Pusey, a village and a parish in Berks, in the Vale of White Horse, 5 miles N by E of Challow station on the G.W.R., and 5 E by N of Faringdon. Post town, Faringdon; money order and telegraph office, Buckland. Acreage of parish, 1040; population, 127. There is a parish council of five members. The manor was known to the Saxons as Pefesige; was given by Canute to the family of Pusey; and with Pusey House, a plain mansion of stone erected about I the middle of the 18th century, belongs now to the Bouverie-Pusey family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £153 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Oxford. The church was rebuilt about 1764, and is a cruciform building of stone in the style of the Renaissance. It has some interesting tombs and memorials.