Description
Glympton, a village and a parish in Oxfordshire, on the river Glyme, 3 1/2 miles NNW of Woodstock station on the G.W.R., with a post office under Woodstock; money order office, Wootton; telegraph office, Woodstock. Acreage, 1259 ; population, 160. Glympton Park is the seat of Colonel Henry Barnett, D.L., J.P., who is lord of the manor. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £178 with residence. The church is a building of stone, and has a fine monument to Thomas Teasdale, who founded Pembroke College in Oxford. The only parts of the original church are the chancel and the font, which are Early Norman.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
