a municipal and parliamentary borough and market town of England, county of Oxford, on the left bank of the small river Glym, 8 miles N.N.W. of Oxford, and 62 miles from London. It is a neat, clean, and well built country town, and contains many houses of a superior description. The town-hall is a neat stone edifice, erected in 1766, with a piazza in the lower part, forming the market-place. The parish church is a handsome structure, partly rebuilt in 1785, with a tower at its W. extremity. It has also places of worship for Methodists and Baptists, a free grammar school, and several charities. The chief manufacture of the town is that of doeskin gloves, that of polished steel articles, for which it was formerly famous, being now almost extinct. Woodstock, however, derives its chief importance from being in the immediate vicinity of Blenheim House, the seat of the Duke of Marlborough. (See BLENHEIM HOUSE.) The borough is governed by a mayor, six aldermen, and eighteen councillors, and returns one member to parliament. Old Woodstock, a little to the N. of the present town, was long a royal residence, but no remains of the ancient palace now exist. Here King Alfred executed his translation of Boethius, and here Chaucer frequently resided. Pop. of borough, which includes several adjacent villages and hamlets, and comprises 21,640 acres (1851), 7983.