SPELSBURY, a parish in the hundred of CHADLINGTON,
county of OXFORD, 5 miles (S. E. by S.) from Chipping-
Norton, containing, with the hamlets of Dean,
Ditchley, Fullwell, and Taston, 610 inhabitants. The
living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of
Oxford, rated in the king's books at £9. 8. 9., endowed
with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty,
and in the patronage of the Dean and Canons of Christ
Church, Oxford. The church, dedicated to All Saints,
contains the remains of John, the celebrated Earl of
Rochester. On an eminence near the village is an extensive
triangular intrenchment, called Castle Ditches,
enclosing a space of about twenty-four acres.