Description
Barford St John, a chapelry formerly in Adderbury parish, Oxfordshire, on a tributary of the river Cherwell, 2 1/2 miles WNW of Deddington, and 1 1/2 mile from Bloxham station on the G.W.R. Deddington under Oxford is the post town; money order and telegraph office, Bloxham. Acreage, 726; population, 102. The living is a perpetual curacy, joined by Order in Council in 1890 to Barford St Michael, in the diocese of Oxford. The church is ancient, and has a Norman door and an Early Norman font.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
