HORNTON, a parish in the hundred of BLOXHAM,
county of OXFORD, 6 miles (N. W. by W.) from Banbury,
containing 529 inhabitants. The church is dedicated
to St. John the Baptist. The living is a vicarage
not in charge, with that of Horley, in the jurisdiction of
the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln in the peculiar court
of Banbury. Here is a school wherein about thirty
children are educated; the master's stipend arises from
a rent-charge on land given by John Fox, amounting
to £12. 12. per annum.