a market-town and parish of the hundred of Bampton, in the county of Oxford, on the river Windrush, 76 miles from London. It is celebrated as the place where an ecclesiastical synod was held in 685, to determine the time for celebrating Easter; for a battle between Cuthred, king of the West Saxons, and Ethelbald, king of the Mercians; and for a victory by Fairfax in 1649 over the army of Charles I. The church is a large and handsome fabric, with a lofty spire. The houses are, with few exceptions, irregular and ill built. There is very little trade. Market-day Saturday. Population of parish in 1852, 1819.