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Topographical Dictionary of England, Lewis, 1831

Cropredy, Oxfordshire

CROPREDY, a parish comprising the chapelry of Mollington, which is partly in the Burton-Dassett division of the hundred of KINGTON, countyof WARWICK, but chiefly in the hundred of BLOXHAM, county of OXFORD, and the chapelries of Bourton, Claydon, and Wardington, and the hamlet of Prescott, in the hundred of BANBURY, county of OXFORD, 4 miles (N. by E.) from Banbury, and containing 2395 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, within the peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £26. 10. 10., and in the patronage of the Bishop of Oxford. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. Walter Calcott founded a free school, and endowed it with an annuity of £13, for teaching forty children; two others are educated for a rent-charge of £2, given by John Ditchfield in 1708. The river Cherwell and the Oxford canal pass through this parish.