KINGHAM, a parish in the hundred of CHADLINGTON,
county of OXFORD, 4 miles (W. S. W.) from
Chipping-Norton, containing 464 inhabitants. The living
is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford,
rated in the king's books at £17". 11. 8,, and in the
patronage of the Rev. 3. C. Lockwood. The church is
dedicated to St. Andrew. The river Evenlode bounds
the parish on the -west, and separates it from Gloucestershire.