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Kiddington in Oxford County England History and GeographyKIDDINGTON, a parish comprising the hamlet of Over Kiddington in the hundred of CHADLINGTON, and that of Nether Kiddington in the hundred of WOOTTON, county of OXFORD, and containing 252 inhabitants. Nether Kiddington is 3¼ miles (E.S.E.), and Over Kiddington 3¼ (S.E. by E.), from Neat Enstone. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford, rated in the king's books at £7. 9. 4½., and in the patronage of Lord Viscount Dillon. The church, dedicated to St. Nicholas, and situated in Nether Kiddington, is supposed to have been built about the year 1400; but the chancel is evidently of earlier date, having probably belonged to the original edifice. In 1466, the emoluments of the ancient rectory of Asterley being considered inadequate for the support of an incumbent, they were formally incorporated with those of this rectory, and thenceforth both parishes became united under the name of Kiddington. There is a farm-house still called Asterley, which claims the privilege of being extra-parochial; and in a large field, termed Chapelbreke, are the supposed sites of the ancient church, mansion-house, and village of Asterley; foundations, mouldings of lancet windows, and other fragments of old masonry, having from time to time been discovered on the spot. A branch of the river Isis runs through the parish. In the gardens of a private mansion in this village is an ancient stone font, found in the chapel of Edward the Confessor at Islip, where was a royal palace, stated, by tradition, to have been that in which the monarch was baptized, in 1010. The ancient road Akeman-street runs through the parish. In Hill wood are visible traces of a Roman encampment; and at other places in the neighbourhood are vestiges of earth-works. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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