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Wootton (St. Peter)

WOOTTON (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Abingdon, hundred of Hormer, county of Berks, 3½ miles (N. W. by N.) from Abingdon; containing 344 inhabitants. The parish comprises about 1400 acres, of which 700 are arable, 640 meadow and pasture, and 60 woodland. It was formerly a chapelry in the parish of Cumner, but was separated early in the last century. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to that of South Hinksey. Jane Mayo, in 1747, bequeathed to the incumbent and wardens, in trust for the poor, a close called the Farm, or Church-close, the proceeds to be distributed yearly at Christmas.

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

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