Kidlington, Oxfordshire

Description
Kidlington, a village and a parish in Oxford sliire. The village stands on the river Cherwell and the Oxford Canal, 1 mile E of the Kidlington station on the Oxford and Wolverhampton section of the G.W.R., and 5 N of Oxford city. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Oxford. Acreage of the civil parish, 4768; population, 1040; of the ecclesiastical, with Water Eaton and the hamlets, 1370. The manor belonged to Thomas Chaucer, the son of the poet, and now belongs to the Duke of Marl-borough. The church is a large and beautiful cruciform building of stone, chiefly of the 15th century, but ranging from Norman to Later English; has an Early English central tower with Later English spire, and contains curiously carved old oak pews, and a memorial window of 1858 to the Rev. Dr Richards, a former vicar. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £220 with residence, in the gift of Exeter College, Oxford. There is a Wesleyan chapel, an endowed almshouse for six poor persons, and a few small charities. Water Eaton in this parish is a parochial chapelry, 4 miles N from Oxford, on the river Cherwell. It has a fine old manor house, now used as a farmhouse, and a chapel of the revived Gothic style of the time of James I. Gosford is an adjacent hamlet. Thrupp, 1 1/2 mile distant, is a hamlet having a church mission room and a Baptist chapel. Kidmore End, a village in Caversham parish, and an ecclesiastical parish formed in 1854 from the civil parishes of Shiplake, Sonning, and] Caversham in Oxfordshire. The village stands 4 miles N of Reading station on the G.W.R., and has a post office under Reading; money order and telegraph office, Caversham. Population of the ecclesiastical parish, 733. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £246 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Oxford. The church, erected in 1852, is a building of flint and stone in the Early English style. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel at Gallows Tree Common. Kidmore Grange and Cane End House are chief residences.