DORTON, a parish in the hundred of ASHENDON,
county of BUCKINGHAM, 8 miles (N.N.W.) from Thame,
containing 133 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy in the archdeaconry of Buckingham, and diocese
of Lincoln, endowed with £ 8 per annum private benefaction,
and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of
the Dean and Canons of Christ Church, Oxford. The
church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist.