COMPTON (LITTLE), a parish in the upper division
of the hundred of DEERHURST, county of GLOUCESTER,
though locally in the hundred of Chadlington,
county of Oxford, 4 miles (N. W. by W.) from
Chipping-Norton, containing 314 inhabitants. The
living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and
diocese of Gloucester, endowed with £400 private benefaction,
and £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of the Dean and Canons of Christ Church, Oxford. The
church is dedicated to St. Denis. Here is an old
mansion, formerly the residence of Bishop Juxon, chaplain
to Charles I.