BLOXHAM, a parish in the hundred of BLOXHAM,
county of OXFORD, 4 miles (S. W. by S.) from Banbury,
containing, with the chapelry of Milcombe, 1520 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the.
archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford, rated in the king's
books at £17. 9. 4., endowed with £205 private benefaction,
and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of
the Provost and Fellows of Eton College. The church
is dedicated to St. Mary. There is a place of worship
for Baptists.