MILTON (GREAT), a parish partly in the hundred
of BULLINGTON, but chiefly in that of THAME,
county of OXFORD, 4 miles (W. by N.) from Tetsworth,
containing, with the hamlets of Ascott and Chilworth,
701 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the peculiar
jurisdiction of the Prebendary of Great Milton in
the Cathedral Church of Lincoln, rated in the king's
books at £15. The Rev. O. Manning was patron in
1800. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. Here was
formerly a monastery, a cell to that at Abingdon.