GOSFORD, a township in the parish of KIDLINGTON,
hundred of WOOTTON, county of OXFORD, 4
miles (N.) from Oxford, containing 47 inhabitants. According
to Tanner, here was a house of sisters of the
order of St. John of Jerusalem, who removed about
1180 to Buckland, in Somersetshire: the estate., which
was .given to them by Robert DOily and his son, continued
in the possession of the hospitallers, who built
an oratory or chapel here about the year 1234, until the
period of the dissolution.