OXENTON, a parish in the lower division of the
hundred of TEWKESBURY, county of GLOUCESTER, 5
miles (E. by S.) from Tewkesbury, containing 178 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, with that of
Tewkesbury, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester,
endowed with £ 600 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of the Earl of Coventry. The church is dedicated
to St. John the Baptist.