Stoke-Talmage (St. Mary Magdalene)

STOKE-TALMAGE (St. Mary Magdalene), a parish, in the union of Thame, hundred of Pirton, county of Oxford, 2 miles (S. S. W.) from Tetsworth; containing 101 inhabitants. It comprises by admeasurement 844 acres, of which 252 are arable, 580 pasture, and 12 wood; the low lands are indifferent pasture, and the high grounds form good strong corn land. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £ 12.17.1.; net income, £248; patron, the Earl of Macclesfield. The tithes were partly exchanged for land and corn-rents in 1811, and a commutation has taken place recently for a rent-charge of £53; there is a glebe-house, and the glebe contains 16¾ acres.