BECKLEY, (Oxfordshire) on the b. of Bucks, bet. Woodstock and Thame. Its demesne was granted by Edw. III. to William
Montacute E. of Salisbury, in reversion, after the death of John Handlow, Esq; Under the park of this place, the Roman way
bet. Aldchester and Wallingford is plainly to be discovored, by the paving stones found hereabouts; and from hence it
passeth to the wood near Stockars. Here is also a by-road, leading from Alcester towards Oxford.