Great Tew, Oxfordshire

Description
Tew, Great, a parish, with a pretty village, in Oxfordshire, 5 1/4 miles ENE of Chipping Norton, and 4 1/2 SE from Hook Norton station on the Banbury and Cheltenham branch of the G.W.R. It has a post office under Enstone (S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Enstone. Acreage, 3007; population, 433. There is a parish council of five members. Roman remains and corns have been found. The manor, with Tew Park, a fine mansion in the Classic style standing in a well-wooded park of 120 acres, belongs to the Boulton family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; gross value, £131 with residence. The church, an ancient edifice in mixed styles, consists of chancel, nave, aisles, and a tower with a peal of eight bells. It contains several ancient and interesting tombs and monuments, and brasses of 1400 and 1513. The vicarage is an ancient mansion dating in part from 1696.