Horley, Oxfordshire

Description
Horley, a parish, with a village, in Oxfordshire, at the boundary with Warwick, 4 miles NW from Banbury town and stations on the L. & N.W.B. and G.W.R. It has a post office under Banbury; money order and telegraph office, Wroxton. Acreage, 1192 acres; population of the civil parish, 277; of the ecclesiastical, with Homton, 703. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford, united with the vicarage of Hornton; joint net value, £449 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is Early and Decorated English, with a central tower on Norman foundations, and has a beautiful Early English piscina and an Early Norman font. There is.also an excellent fresco of St Christopher on the N wall. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a school with £52 from endowment, and some small charities.