Oakley, Church (St. Leonard)
OAKLEY, CHURCH (St. Leonard), a parish, in the union of Basingstoke, hundred of Chutely, Kingsclere and N. divisions of the county of Southampton, 5 miles (W. by S.) from Basingstoke; containing 335 inhabitants. It is intersected by the London and South-Western railway, and comprises 1605a. 1r. 24p., of which 1119 acres are arable, 226 pasture, and 168 woodland. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £11. 13. 11½.; net income, £311; patrons, the Provost and Fellows of Queen's College, Oxford. William Warham, successively Bishop of London and Archbishop of Canterbury, and an eminent statesman, who died in 1532, was born here.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.