HORLEY, a parish in the hundred of BLOXHAM,
county of OXFORD, 3 miles (N."W.) from Banbury,
containing, with the chapelry of Hornton, 846 inhabitants.
The living is a vicarage with that of Hornton,
in the jurisdiction of the peculiar court of Banbury,
belonging to the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln, rated in
the king's books at £ 16. 13. 4., and in the patronage of
the Crown. The church is dedicated to St. Ethelreda.
Here is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.
A free school was endowed by Michael Harding, in the
reign of Charles I., with houses and land: the present
income is £42 per annum.