Description
Drayton, a village and a parish in Oxfordshire, near the Oxford Canal, 2 miles NW by W of Banbury, which is the nearest railway station. Post town and money order office, Banbury; telegraph office, Wroxton. Acreage, 926; population, 176. The manor belonged formerly to the Ardens and the Grevilles, and belongs now to Earl De la Warr and Lord North. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net yearly value, £200 with residence. The church is old but good, and contains monuments of the Grevilles.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
