IFLEY, a .parish in the hundred of BULLINGTON, county of OXFORD, 1 mile (S.E. by S.) from Oxford, containing, with the hamlet of Hockmoor, and a portion of the liberty of Littlemoor, 881 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford, rated in the king's books at £8, endowed with £200 private benefaction, £600 royal bounty, and £500 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Archdeacon of Oxford. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is principally of Norman architecture, having a low square tower between the nave and the chancel, with a handsome south porch, and a fine western doorway, embellished with chevron mouldings and other decorations: the chancel is partly in the early English style, and there are some windows of a later date. In 1805, a school for educating and clothing ten girls was founded, in pursuance of the will of Thomas Nowell, D.D., who left property producing £39 per annum for this purpose. Mrs. Alice Smith, in 1678, gave lands and tenements, producing about £100 per annum, for apprenticing poor boys and other purposes.