NORTON (BRIZE), a parish in the hundred of BAMPTON, county of OXFORD, 5 miles (S. E.) from Burford, containing 528 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford, rated in the king's books at £9. 7 11.i and in the patronage of the Dean and Canons of Christ Chxirch, Oxford. The church is dedicated to St. Brise. Ten. poor children are "educated for an annuity of £ 10, the gift of Goddard Carter, in 1723.