STEVENTON, a parish in the hundred of OCK, county of BERKS, 5 miles (S. W. by S.) from Abingdon, containing 652 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Berks, and diocese of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £9. 5. 2., and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster. The church is dedicated to St. Michael. There is a place of worship for Baptists. The Berks and Wilts canal passes through the parish. In the village is an ancient cross, consisting of a tall shaft rising from a base of several steps. A castle was formerly erected here by Baldwin Wake, in 1281, of which there are no vestiges. A priory of Black monks, a cell to the abbey of Bee in Normandy, was founded in the time of Henry I., which, at the suppression of Alien houses, was bestowed upon the abbot and convent of Westminster. Twelve children are instructed daily, and a Sunday school is partly supported, for about £11 per annum, arising from the sum of £210, bequeathed by John Anns, in 1811.