CROPREDY - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"CROPREDY, a parish in the hundreds of Banbury and Bloxham, in the counties of Oxford and Warwick, 26½ miles N. of Oxford, and 4½ N.E. of Banbury. It is situated on the river Cherwell and the Oxford canal. The parish contains the chapelries of Wardington, Mollington, and Claydon, and the townships of Great and Little Bourton and Coton Williamscote. A battle was fought at Cropredy Bridge in 1644, between Charles I. and the Parliamentarians, in which the former was victorious. The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Oxford, value £264, in the patronage of the bishop. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a handsome building in the decorated perpendicular style of architecture, with a tower. The charities amount to £106 per annum. Here is a Dissenting place of worship, and a National school."

"MOLLINGTON, a chapelry in the parish of Cropredy, hundreds of Bloxham and Kington, counties Oxford and Warwick, 5 miles N.W. of Banbury, its post town, and 9 from Shipston-on-Stour. The village is small and chiefly agricultural. The living is a perpetual curacy* in the diocese of Oxford, value £120, in the patronage of the bishop. The church, dedicated to All Saints, is situated on an eminence. There is a small charity distributed yearly in coals."

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