STUDLEY, a chapelry in the parish of BECKLEY, partly in the hundred of ASHENDON, county of BUCKINGHAM, and partly in that of BULLJNGTON, county of OXFORD, 6 miles (N. E. by E.) from Oxford, containing, with the hamlet of Horton, 429 inhabitants, A priory of Benedictine nuns, in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary, was founded here, in the reign of Henry II., by Bernard de S. Walerico, which at the dissohir tion had a revenue of £ 102. 6. 7.