WROXTON, a parish in the hundred of BLOXHAM, county of OXFORD, 3 miles (W. N. W,) frqm Banbury, containing, with the chapelry of Balscott, 792 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford, and in the patronage of the Marquis of Bute. The church is dedicated to All Saints. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. A priory of Augustine canons, in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary, was founded early in the reign of Henry III., by Michael Belet, which at the dissolution was granted to Sir Thomas Pope, who afterwards bestowed it on Trinity College, Oxford, .