LEAFIELD, a chapelry in the parish of SHIPTON
tinder WHICHWOOD, hundred of CHADLINGTON, county of
OXFORD, 5 miles (N. W. by N.) from Witney, containing
553 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy,
in the archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford, endowed
with £800 royal bounty, and £1200 parliamentary
grant. The chapel, founded in the reign of Elizabeth,
by Sir Henry Upton, and dedicated to St. Michael, has
lately received an addition of two hundred and eighty
sittings, of which, two hundred and fifty are free, the
Incorporated Society for the enlargement of churches
and chapels having contributed £250 towards defraying
the expense.