Tackley

"TACKLEY, a parish in the hundred of Wootton, county Oxford, 3 miles N.E. of Woodstock, its post town, and 9 from Oxford. The village is on the Oxford canal and the river Cherwell. The parish includes the hamlet of Nethercote, and belonged to the Nowers and Aylworths. A peculiar sort of earth used for flooring barns and cottages abounds. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford, value £742, in the patronage of St. John's College, Oxford. The church, dedicated to St. Nicholas, is a cruciform structure with a square tower. The parochial charities produce about £1 per annum. The Wesleyans have a chapel, and there is a National school for both sexes. The Roman way Akeman Street passes through the parish, and separates the two manors of the Duke of Marlborough and Sir H. Dashwood, Bart."

"NETHERCOTE, a hamlet in the parish of Tackley, county Oxford, 3 miles N.E. of Woodstock. It is situated on the Oxford canal and the river Charwell."

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