OAKLEY, a parish in the hundred of ASHENDON,
county of BUCKINGHAM, 6 miles (N. W. by N.) from
Thame, containing 382 inhabitants. The living is a
discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Buckingham,
and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books
at £5. 17 1. Sir J.Aubrey, Bart, was patron in 1810.
The church, dedicated to St. Mary, was formerly the
mother church of Brill, Borstal!, and Addingrave; the
two first have been made distinct parishes; the last
had a chapel of ease, which has gone to decay. A rentcharge
of £25, upon the parish charity estate, is applied
to the education of poor children.