Stonesfield, Oxfordshire

Description
Stonesfield, a parish, with a village, in Oxfordshire, on Akeman Street and the river Evenlode, 2 1/2 miles NW of Handborough station on the Oxford and Worcester section of the G.W.R., and 3 1/2 W of Woodstock. It has a post office under Woodstock; money order and telegraph office, Coombe. Acreage, 817; population, 577. There is a parish council consisting of six members. The manor belongs to the Duke of Marlborough, A fine Roman pavement, 35 feet by 60, was found in 1711, and the foundations of some Roman villas in 1779. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £133 with residence. Patron, the Duke of Marlborough. The church is a small but ancient building of stone in the Early English and Later styles. There are also Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.