FIFIELD, a parish in the hundred of CHADLINGTON,
county of OXFORD, 4 miles (N. by W.) from Burford,
containing 136 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Chancellor
of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury, endowed with
£ 16 per annum and £200 private benefaction, £600
royal bounty, and £ 300 parliamentary grant, and in the
patronage of the Hon. and Rev. Hugh Percy. The
church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist. The river
Evenlode skirts part of the parish. Jane Bray, in 1715,
gave a rent-charge of £4. 10. a year for teaching poor
children.