Description
Stratton Audley, a parish in Oxfordshire, on a Roman road, 3 1/2 miles NNE of Bicester station on the L. & N.W.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Bicester. Acreage, 2308; population of the civil parish, 405; of the ecclesiastical, 346. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The site of a Roman villa and traces of a Roman road are still to be seen, and near the church are the foundations of an ancient castle. The kennels of the Bicester Hunt are here. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; gross value, £226 with residence. Patron, Christchurch, Oxford. The church is an ancient edifice of stone in mixed styles, consisting of chancel with aisles, nave, aisles, N and S porches, and an embattled western tower. It has some memorials of the Borlase and Woodward families.
Stratton Audley, Oxfordshire
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
