Heythrop, Oxfordshire

Description
Heythrop, a parish in Oxfordshire, on a headstream of the river Glyme, 3 miles E by N from Chipping Norton station on the G.W.R. It includes the hamlet of Dunthrop, and its post town is Chipping Norton; money order and telegraph office, Enstone. Acreage, 1763; population, 254. Heythrop House, formerly the seat of the Earl of Shrewsbury, was destroyed by fire in 1831, but has been replaced by a fine modern mansion of stone in the Italian style. The house is surrounded by pleasure gardens and a well-wooded park of 300 acres, and is the seat of the Brassey family, who are lords of the manor and sole landowners. A Carthusian monastery was founded here in 1222 by William Longespee, and removed to Hinton in Somerset. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net value,, £241. The church, built in 1879-80, at the sole cost of Mr A. Brassey, is an edifice of stone in the Geometrical style.