Piddington (St. Nicholas)
PIDDINGTON (St. Nicholas), a parish, in the union of Bicester, hundred of Bullingdon, though locally in that of Ploughley, county of Oxford, 2½ miles (W. N. W.) from Brill; containing 427 inhabitants. It comprises 2228a. 3r. 26p., and is bounded on the south by Musvill Hill, at the bottom of which the village is situated; the land from the village to the northern boundary is rather flat, and subject to occasional floods. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £173; patrons, the Parishioners.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.