Description
Black Bourton, a parish in Oxfordshire, 2 miles NW from Bampton, and 6 SW of Witney station on the G.W.R. It has a post office under Faringdon ; money order and telegraph office, Bampton. Acreage, 2352; population, 226. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; gross yearly value, £350 with residence. Patron, Christ Church, Oxford. The church is Early English, and contains a stone pulpit and monuments of the Hungerfords and Sir A. Hopton. There is also a Primitive Methodist chapel. Maria Edgeworth was a native.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
