Ascott-under-Wychwood, a parish in Oxfordshire, on the river Evenlode, with a station on the G.W.R., 5 miles S of Chipping Norton. It has a post office under Oxford; money order and telegraph office, Shipton. Acreage, 1839; population, 430. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; value, £80. Patron, the Bishop of Oxford. The church is an ancient building of stone, in the Norman and later styles. There is also a Baptist chapel.