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Wheatley

WHEATLEY, a chapelry, in the parish of Cuddesden, union of Headington, hundred of Bullingdon, county of Oxford, 5½ miles (E. by S.) from Oxford; containing 997 inhabitants. A post-office is established in the village. The chapel is dedicated to St. Mary: the living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £120; patron and appropriator, the Bishop of Oxford. The tithes were commuted for land in 1809. Bishop Moss, in 1811, bequeathed £3000 for the foundation of a national school, and for other charitable uses 3 in pursuance of which, schoolrooms have been provided, and £1500 given by the trustees as a permanent endowment, producing, with subscriptions, £100 per annum. Lady Curzon, in 1692, assigned lands now producing £15 per annum, for apprenticing children. Dr. Cyril Jackson, in 1816, gave £166. 13. three per cent, consols., for clothing the poor; and the rental of the town meadow, amounting to £26.10., is applied to general relief. The remains of a Roman villa were discovered in 1845.

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

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