Oakley, Buckinghamshire

Description
Oakley, a village and a parish in Buckinghamshire. The village stands 2 miles S of Muswell Hill at the boundary with Oxfordshire, 6 1/2 NW of Thame station on The Maidenhead and Oxford section of the G.W.R., and 10 W by N from Oxford. It has a post office under Thame; money order and telegraph office, Brill. The parish comprises 2806 acres; population of the civil parish, 449; of the ecclesiastical, 445. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The manor belongs to the Aubrey family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £260 with residence. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Transitional, Decorated, and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave, N aisle, S porch, and a low western tower, surmounted at the SE angle by a stair-turret with a bold finial, and contains monuments of Admiral Tyrrel and James Tyrrel, author of a " History of England." There are poor's pasture-lands worth about £100 a year, and other charities.