Description
Hornton, a parish, with a village, in Oxfordshire, adjacent to Warwickshire and under Edge Hill, 5 miles W by S from Cropredy station on the G.W.R., and 5 1/2 NW of Banbury. It has a post office under Banbury; money order office, Tysoe; telegraph office, Wroxton. Acreage, 1422; population of the civil parish, 426; of the ecclesiastical, with Horley, 703. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Horley, in the diocese of Oxford; joint net value,, £449 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is partly of the 12th century, partly of the 13th, and is a building of stone in the Norman, Early English, and Decorated styles. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel and an endowed national school.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
