Description
Hampton Gay, a village and a parish in Oxfordshire, on the river Cherwell, the Oxford Canal, and near Woodstock Eoad station on the G.W.R., 2 1/2 miles from Woodstock. Post town, Oxford; money order and telegraph office, Rid-Engton. Acreage, 684; population, 30. The manor belongs to Wadham College, Oxford. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; value,, £20. Patron, Wadham College, Oxford. The church was rebuilt in 1768 and restored in 1859, when lancet windows were inserted in place of the round-headed. There is a good square tower with two bells. The fine Elizabethan manor house was burned down in 1887.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
