Description
Holton, a village and a parish in Oxfordshire, on the Wycombe and Oxford branch of the G.W.R., near Wheatley station, and near the river Thame, 6 miles E from Oxford. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Wheatley, under Oxford. Acreage, 1717; population of the civil parish, 224; of the ecclesiastical, 200. Holton Park is a modern edifice, in room of a fine old moated manor house, standing in a park of 200 acres. General Ireton was married here to Oliver Cromwell's daughter in 1646. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £220 with residence. The church is ancient bnt very good, and a school has £12 a year from endowment.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
