Description
Oxhill, a village and a parish in Warwickshire. The village stands on an affluent of the river Stour, 2 1/2 miles WNW of the boundary with Oxfordshire, 3 ESE of the Fosse Way, 4 SSW of Kineton, and 6 NE of Shipston-on-Stour. Post town, Kineton, under Warwick. The parish comprises 1845 acres; population, 209. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £170 with residence. The church is Norman, with a Perpendicular tower. It was restored in 1865 and 1878, and contains an ancient font, a good chancel screen, and an inscribed slab to Daniel Blackford, a Royalist officer who died in 1681. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
