OAKLEY (CHURCH), a parish in the hundred of CHUTELY, Kingsclere division of the county of SOUTHAMPTON, 4 miles (W. by S.) from Basingstoke, containing 246 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Winchester, rated in the king's books at £11. 13. 11., and in the patronage of the Provost and Fellows of Queen's College, Oxford. The church is dedicated to St. Leonard. George Wither, hi 1666, gave certain lands and tenements, also a rentcharge of £ 8, in support of a school for the education of eight poor boys; and Gilbert Wither, in 1676, gave a rent-charge of 40s., to be applied in apprenticing boys. William Warham, successively Bishop of London, and Archbishop of Canterbury, and an eminent statesman, was born here 3 he died in 1532.