DRAYTON, a parish in the hundred of OCK,
county of BERKS, 2 miles (S.W. by S.) from Abingdon,
containing 498 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy annexed to the vicarage cf St. Helen's,
Abingdon, in the archdeaconry of Berks, and diocese
of Salisbury. The chapel is dedicated to St. Peter.
The Wilts and Berks canal passes through this chapelry.
In 1780, a dreadful fire which raged in the village
destroyed more than thirty houses.