WYTHAM, a parish in the hundred of HORMER,
county of BERKS, 3 miles (N. W.) from Oxford, containing
241 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the
archdeaconry of Berks, and diocese of Salisbury, rated
in the king's books at £7- 5. 2., and in the patronage
of the Earl of Abingdon. The church is dedicated
to All Saints. Here was anciently a nunnery, which
was originally founded at Abingdon by the sister of
King Ceadwalla, and afterwards removed hither; but,
during the war between Offa and Cynewulf, it was
demolished by the nuns, who had suffered great annoyance
from a castle having been erected in the neighbourhood.