ROLLRIGHT (GREAT), a parish in the hundred
of CHADLINGTON, county of OXFORD, 3 miles (N. by
E.) from Chipping-Norton, containing 419 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese
of Oxford, rated in the king's books at £ 16. 9. 4., and
in the patronage of the Principal and Fellows of
Braseaose College, Oxford. The church is dedicated
to St. Andrew. The Rev. James Parker, in 1?80, bequeathed
£ 100 towards the sxipport of a school for
teaching poor children to read. This parish was noted
among agriculturists for a peculiar species of cattle,
called the Rollright breed.