LYFORD, a chapelry in that part of the parish of WEST-HANNEY which is in the hundred of OCK, county of BERKS, 4 miles (N.) from Wantage, containing 133 inhabitants. An almshouse for ten poor aged persons, who are to be elected from Lyford, or one of the Hannings, was founded here in 1603, by Oliver Ashcombe, Esq., formerly chief proprietor of Lyford; eight of the inmates receive an allowance of 4s. each per week, and the other two 3s. 6d. each.