Description
Brightwell or Britwell, a parish in Oxfordshire, 3 miles W from Watlington station on the G.W.R., and 6 NE from Wallingford. It includes the liberty of Cadwell, and its post town is Tetsworth; money order and telegraph office, Watlington. Acreage, 1612 ; population, 242. Brightwell Park is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; value, £318 with residence. The church is fine Decorated English, with rich Perpendicular tower, and contains tombs of the Carletons. Brightwell Upper Town is a small village in this parish. Bishops Westfaling and Paul were rectors.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
