Description
Britwell Prior, a chapelry in Newington parish, Oxford, under the Chilterns, 1 1/2 mile SW of Watlington station on the G.W.R., and 6 NE from Wallingford. Post town, Tetsworth; money order and telegraph office, Watlington. Acreage, 720; population, 61. An ancient priory stood here, and a nunnery of St Clare was set up for some time by French nuns who fled from the first revolution. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the rectory of Britwell Salome, in the diocese of Oxford. The church was taken down in 1865. Britwell House is a chief residence.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
