Description
Bruern, a township which forms part of the ecclesiastical parish of Milton-under-Wychwood, in Oxfordshire, 5 miles N of Burford, and 2 1/2 SW of Chipping-Norton Junction station on the G.W.R. There is a post and money order office at Milton, under Chipping-Norton; telegraph office, Shipton railway station. Acreage, 1876 ; population, 38. A Cistercian abbey was founded here in 1147 by Nicholas Basset, and given in the time of James I. to Sir Anthony Cope. The buildings were changed into a private residence, and were destroyed by fire in the 18th century. Old fish-ponds connected with them still exist.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
