Culham, Oxfordshire

Description
Culham, a parish in Oxfordshire and Berks, on the river Thames, adjacent to the Didcot and Oxford section of the G.W.R., 1 1/2 mile S by E of Abingdon. It has a station on the railway, and its post town is Abingdon; money order and telegraph office, Abingdon. Acreage, 2052 in Oxford, and 11 in Berks; population, 474. The manor belonged to Abingdon Abbey, and an old seat on it, converted into a farmhouse, was a residence of the abbots. Culham College, built in 1853, at a cost of nearly £20,000, is a training school for schoolmasters of the dioceses of Oxford and Gloucester, and contains accommodation for 100 students. A bridge on the Thames here was built in 1416 by Geoffrey Barbour. There is also a lock. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford ; net yearly value, £234 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Oxford. The church was mainly rebuilt in 1852, in the Early English style. The chancel was rebuilt in 1872 - the tower alone remains of the older church. Culham House is a chief residence.