ELSFIELD, a parish in the hundred of BULLINGTON, county of OXFORD, 3 miles (N.E.byN.) from Oxford, containing 188 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford, rated in the king's books at £6. 8. 1., andendowed with £ 200 royal bounty. The Earl of Guildford was patr.on in 1804. The church is dedicated to St. Thomas a Becket.