Description
Britwell Salome, a parish in Oxfordshire, on Icknield Street, under the Chilterns, 1 1/2 mile SW from Watlington station on the G.W.R., and 6 NE from Wallingford. It has a post office under Tetsworth; money order and telegraph office, Watlington. Acreage, 884; population of the civil parish, 124; of the ecclesiastical, 185. The south-eastern part, toward the Chilterns, rises into Britwell Downs, and has an ancient camp. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford, with the chapelry of Britwell Prior annexed; joint net yearly value, £180 with residence. The church is partly Norman, and has two brasses. It was rebuilt in 1867.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
