COMPTON (LONG), a parish in the Brails division of the hundred of KINGTON, county of WARWICK, 4 miles (N. N. W.) from Chipping-Norton, containing 860 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, rated in the king's books at £12. 15. 7., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Provost and Fellows of Eton College. The church is dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. A weekly market and an annual fair, now disused, were granted in the 15th of Henry III. About a mile southward, and near the Oxfordshire boundary, is that remarkable monument of antiquity, called Rolle-rich, or Rowlright, stones, of which there is an absurd vulgar tradition that they were once men, and that the highest of them would have been king of England, if he could have seen this village before they were turned into stone.