Description
Bix, a parish in Oxfordshire, under the Chiltern Hills, 2 1/2 miles NW of Henley-on-Thames station on the G.W.R. It has a post office under Henley-on-Thames, which is the telegraph office; money order office, Nettlebed. Acreage, 3078; population of the civil parish, 387 ; of the ecclesiastical, 364. The area comprises two quondam parishes, Bixbrand in the N and Bixgibwen in the S. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net yearly value, £340 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Macclesfield. The church, a building of flint, was erected in 1875.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
