BOARSTALL, a parish in the hundred of ASHENDON, county of BUCKINGHAM, 7 miles (S. S. E.) from Bicester, containing 231 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to that of Brill, in the archdeaconry of Buckingham, and diocese of Lincoln, endowed with £15 per annum private benefaction, and £400 royal bounty. The church, dedicated to St. James, was a chapel of ease to the vicarage of Oakley until 1418, when it was made parochial. Boarstall House, in the early part of the civil war, was garrisoned for the king, but was evacuated in 1644, and immediately taken possession of by the parliamentary garrison at Aylesbury. Col. Gage recovered it again, and placed a garrison therein, but it was ultimately surrendered to Fairfax, in 1646: the only part now remaining is a large gateway, with turrets at the angles.