NEWINGTON (SOUTH), a parish in the hundred
of WOOTTON, county of OXFORD, 5 miles (W. N. ~W.)
from Deddington, containing 428 inhabitants. The
living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and
diocese of Oxford, rated in the king's books at £8,
endowed with £600 private benefaction, £400 royal
bounty, and £ 900 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage
of the Rector and Fellows of Exeter College,
Oxford. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, has lately
received an addition of two hundred and twenty-four
sittings, of which one hundred and forty-six are free,
the Incorporated Society for the enlargement of churches
and chapels having granted £ 100 towards the expense.
The small river Sweve separates this parish from those
of Milcombe and Wigginton.