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Tadmarton (St. Nicholas)

TADMARTON (St. Nicholas), a parish, in the union of Banbury, hundred of Bloxham, county of Oxford, 5 miles (W. S. W.) from Banbury; containing 404 inhabitants. It comprises by computation 2004a. 3r. 18p., of which 1308 acres are arable, 591 pasture, and 80 wood, furze, &c. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £13. 11. 0½.; net income, £307; patrons, the Provost and Fellows of Worcester College, Oxford. The church has a tower of three stages: the two lower are of the period of transition from the early English to the decorated; the upper stage is of the 15th century. The open sittings of the nave present some fine specimens of wood-carving, and the font is of good design. The work called Tadmarton Castle, and an adjacent one in Hook-Norton parish, called Hook-Norton Barrow, of both which there are vestiges, are supposed by some to have been raised by the Danes, when, in 914, they plundered this part of the county, and advanced with great havoc to Hook-Norton, where they killed many of the Saxons.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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