TEW (GREAT), a parish in the hundred of WOOTTON,
county of OXFORD, 3 miles (N. N. E.) from Neat-
Enstone, containing, with the chapelry of Little Tew,
760 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Oxford, rated in the king's
books at £6. 13. 4., endowed with £200 private benefaction,
and £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of G. F. Stratton, Esq. The church, dedicated to St.
Michael, has lately received an addition of three hundred
and nine sittings, of which two hundred and fiftyseven
are free, the Incorporated Society for the enlargement
of churches and chapels having granted £200 towards
defraying the expense. Thomas Edwards Freeman,
in 1781, gave an annuity of £12 for the education of
ten children of each sex.