SHIRBURN, a parish in the hundred of PIRTON,
county of OXFORD, 4 miles (S. by B.) from Tetsworth,
containing 332 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford,
rated in the king's hooks at £10. 16. 0., endowed with
£800 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and
in the patronage of the Earl of Macclesfield. The
church is dedicated to All Saints. Shirburn castle, the
seat of. the Earl of Macclesfield, is surrounded by a
moat, over which is a drawbridge.