Great Rollright, Oxfordshire

Description
Rollright, Great, a village and a parish in Oxfordshire. The village stands on the borders of Warwickshire, 2 1/2 miles SW from Hook Norton station on the Banbury and Cheltenham branch of the G.W.R., and 3 E by N from Chipping Norton. It was known at Domesday as Rollendri, and has a post office under Chipping Norton; money order and telegraph office, Chipping Norton. The parish comprises 2414 acres; population, 349. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The manor belongs to Brasenose College, Oxford. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; gross value, £49 and glebe. Patron, Brasenose College, Oxford. The church is partly Norman, partly Early English, and consists of chancel, nave, S aisle, S porch, and an embattled western tower. It has an ancient brass of 1522, and contains a monument to Sheppard, the friend of Prior. There are two Baptist chapels, and charities worth about £140 a year. The Stow Road in the parish is the watershed of the Thames and Severn.