Ratley, Warwickshire

Description
Ratley, a village and a parish in Warwickshire. The village stands under Edge Hill, near the boundary with Oxfordshire, 4 miles SE of Kineton, and 5 1/4 SW of Fenny Compton. It has a post office under Banbury; money order office, Avon Dassett; telegraph office, Kineton. The parish contains also the hamlet of Upton. Acreage, 1729; population, 371. The manor was known at Domesday as Rotelei, and belongs now to the Earl of Jersey. Stone is extensively quarried. Nadbury camp, on Edge Hill, was a British encampment. Upton House is the chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £100 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is ancient, and the churchyard contains a preaching cross. There are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.