Wheatfield

WHEATFIELD, a parish, in the union of Thame, hundred of Pirton, county of Oxford, 2¼ miles (S.) from Tetsworth; containing 99 inhabitants. It comprises about 1000 acres. The soil is generally a fine loam resting, in the higher lands, on chalk, and in the lower, on clay. The surface is partly flat and partly undulated, and watered by a small rivulet which separates the parish from Adwell and Tetsworth. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £9. 10. 10., and in the gift of C. V. Spencer, Esq.: the tithes have been commuted for £230, and the glebe comprises 30 acres.