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Topographical Dictionary of England, Lewis, 1831

Chastleton, Oxfordshire

CHASTLETON, a parish in the hundred of CHADLINGTON, county of OXFORD, 5 miles (W.N.W.) from Chipping-Norton, containing 250 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford, rated in the king's books at £9. 0. 2½., and on the patronage of P. T. Adams, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. A battle was fought here in 1016, between Edmund Ironside and Canute, when the latter was defeated with great slaughter. In the vicinity are vestiges of a Danish fortification.