Great Haseley, Oxfordshire

Description
Haseley, Great, a township and a parish in Oxfordshire. The township lies 3 miles W from Tetsworth, and 2 S from Tiddington station on the G.W.R., and has a post office under Tetsworth; money order office, Little Milton; telegraph office, Great Milton. The parish contains also the township of Little Haseley, the liberty of Eycote, and the hamlets of Latchf£rd and Lobb. Acreage, 3255; population, 623. The manor was given by the Conqueror to Milo Crispin, passed to the Bassets, the Brothertons, the Pipards, the Lenthalls, and others, and now belongs to the Boulton family. Haseley Court is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net yearly value, £641 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Canons of Windsor. The church is ancient, has a fine entrance-porch and a lofty embattled tower, and contains stone stalls and an altar-tomb. There are a Congregational chapel, and considerable charity estates for schools, apprenticing, and the poor. Leiand the antiquary was rector, and Delafield, the author of a history of the parish, was a native.