COWLEY, a parish in the hundred of BULLINGTON,
county of OXFORD, 2 miles (S. E. by E.) from Oxford,
containing. 472 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford, endowed
with £600 private benefaction, and £600 royal
bounty, and in the patronage of the Dean and Canons
of Christ Church, Oxford. The church is 'dedicated to
St. James. There was anciently a preceptory of the
Knights Templars in this parish.