Merton, Oxfordshire

Description
Merton, a parish, with a village, in Oxfordshire, on the river Ray, 4 1/2 miles SSWofBicester station on the L. & N.W.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Bicester. Acreage, 1932 ; population, 195. The manor belonged formerly to the Harringtons, and belongs now to the Turner trustees. The manor house was built in the time of Queen Elizabeth, gave a few days' concealment to Prince Charles Edward in the time of Sir James Harrington, and is now a modernised farmhouse. A branch line of Roman road, now almost obliterated, intersects the parish, and a causeway, nearly 2 miles long, constructed at great cost by Sir G. P. Turner, connects the village of Merton with that of Ambros-den. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £146 with residence. Patron, Exeter College, Oxford. The church is an ancient building of stone, chiefly in the-Decorated style, and consists of nave, S aisle, and chancel y with a tower. It has a Jacobean pulpit and some ancient and interesting tombs and monuments.