IPSTONE, a parish partly in the hundred of PIRTON,
county of OXFORD, but chiefly in the hundred of DESBOROUGH,
county of BUCKINGHAM, 7 miles (N. W. by
W.) from Great Mariow, containing 272 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Oxford,, rated in the king's books at
£9. 9. 4., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and
£200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Warden
and Fellows of Merton College, Oxford. The church,
dedicated to St. Nicholas, stands in Oxfordshire, the
boundary line of the two counties passing through a
room in the manor-house. Two boys of this parish are
educated, clothed, and apprenticed, from funds vested in
the Governors of Goring Hospital.