BARFORD (GREAT), a parish in the hundred of WOOTTON, county of OXFORD, 2 miles (W.N.W.) from Deddington, containing 339 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford, rated in the king's books at £6. 5., endowed with £400 private benefaction, and £600 royal bounty, and in the patronage of John Hall, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Michael.