Description
Compton, Long, a village and a parish in Warwickshire. The village stands near the boundary with Oxford and Gloucester, 4 miles NNW of Chipping-Norton, 6 SSE of Shipston-on-Stour, and 6 E of Moreton-in-Marsh, and was once a market-town. It has a post and money order office (S.O.); telegraph office, Chipping-Norton. Acreage of parish, 3806; population, 606. About 1 mile from the village are the Rollright Stones, a circle of Druidical origin. Weston House is the seat of the Countess of Camperdown. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; gross value, £147 with residence. Patron, Eton College. The church is ancient, and was restored in 1863. There are Congregational, Wesleyan, and Primitive Methodist chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
