STADHAMPTON, a parish in the hundred of DORCHESTER, county of OXFORD, 8 miles (S.E. by E.) from Oxford, containing 254 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the jurisdiction of the peculiar court of Dorchester, endowed with £16 per annum private benefaction, £600 royal bounty, and £400 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of C. Peers, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist. Sundry benefactions, producing £10 a year, are applied for the education of nine poor children. The parish is bounded on the west by the river Thame. The Rev. John Owen, D.D., the celebrated and learned nonconformist, Dean of Christ Church, and Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford, in the time of the Commonwealth, was born here.