MILTON, a parish in the hundred of OCK, county
of BERKS, 3 miles (S. by W.) from Abingdon, containing
421 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in
the archdeaconry of Berks, and diocese of Salisbury,
rated in the king's books at £ 17. 9. 7., and in the patronage
of the Dean and Canons of Christ Church, Oxford,
on the demise of the present incumbent, and another
individual named in the will of the late Rev. J. G.
Warner. The church is dedicated to St. Blaise. The
Rev. J. G. Warner, late rector, gave the dividends on
certain property in the public funds, for the education
of poor children of the parish; the income is about
£ 67 per annum, for which twenty of each sex are taught
on the National system. The manor-house was erected
by Inigo Jones.