LITTLEMOOR, a liberty in the parish of ST-MARY
the VIRGIN, partly within the liberties of the CITY of
OXFORD, and partly in the hundred of BULLINGTON,
county of OXFORD, 2 miles (S. E. by S.) from Oxford,
containing 354 inhabitants. Here was formerly a
chapel, now in ruins. A priory of Benedictine nuns,
founded here about the reign of Henry II., and dedicated
to St. Mary and St. Nicholas, was suppressed
by the papal bull given to Cardinal Wolsey, in 1524,
and subsequently became part of the endowment of
King's College, Oxford, until the time of the general
dissolution; at its suppression the revenue was valued
at £33. 6. 8.