SHILTON, a parish partly in the hundred of FARRINGDON,
county of BERKS, and partly in the hundred
of BAMPTON, county of OXFORD, 2 miles (S. S. E.)
from Burford, containing 256 inhabitants. The living
is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and dio
cese of Oxford, rated in the king's books at £5. 5. 5.
Miss Georges and others were patrons in 1808. The
church is in Oxfordshire, the greater part of the parish
in Berkshire, and the vicarage-house upon the boundary
of the two counties. A charity school is supported by
subscriptions.