Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for RAMSDEN

RAMSDEN, a township-chapelry in Shipton-under-Wychwood parish, Oxford; on Akeman-street and in Wychwood forest, 2¾ miles S of Charlbury r. station, and 3 ½ N by W of Witney. Post-town, Charlbury, under Enstone. Acres, 902. Real property, £941. Pop., 455. Houses, 92. The manor belongs to Lord Churchill. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Oxford. Value, not reported.* Patron, the Bishop of Oxford. The church was built in 1841. There are a Wesleyan chapel and a national school.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township-chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Ramsden Ch/CP       Shipton under Wychwood CP/AP       Oxfordshire AncC
Place: Ramsden

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