Curbridge, Oxfordshire

Description
Curbridge, a township in Witney parish, Oxfordshire, 1 1/2 mile SW of Witney. It has a post office under Faringdon; money order and telegraph office, Witney; contains Witney workhouse, and includes Curbridge down. Acreage, 2983 ; population, 703. There is a chapel of ease to the parish church, and a small Primitive Methodist chapel here. An old moated mansion, Caswell House, formerly a baronial residence, is now occupied as a farmhouse. Viscount Wenman appears to have resided there as late as the beginning of the 18th century. Curbridge includes in its area the parish church of Witney, the rectory house, and what still remains of the ancient summer palace of the Bishops of Winchester, to whom belonged the patronage of the benefice from Saxon times until Bishop Wilberforce obtained it for the See of Oxford.