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BULLINGDON HUNDRED, one of the 14 hundreds of the county of Oxford, situated near the middle of the county, and bounded on the N. by the hundred of Ploughley, on the E. by Buckinghamshire, on the S. by the hundreds of Dorchester and Ewelme, and on the W. by the hundred of Wootton and the county of Berks. It contains the parishes of Albury, Ambrosden, Baldon Marsh, Baldon Toot, St. Clement's, Cowley, Cuddesden, Elsfield, Forest Hill, Garsington, Headington, Holton, Horsepath, Iffley, Marston, Merton, Nuneham-Courtney, Piddington, Sandford, Shotover, Stanton St. John, Stow Wood, Waterperry, and Wood Eaton, with portions of Beckley and Great Milton. The hundred spreads over an area of about 46,630 acres.

"SHOTOVER, an extra parochial place in the hundred of Bullingdon, county Oxford, 4.5 miles N.E. of Oxford. It is situated under Shotover Hill, which rises 599 feet in height. Forest Hill was the residence of Richard Powell, Milton's father-in-law"

The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003