NORTHMOOR, a parish in the hundred of CHADLINGTON, county of OXFORD, 6 miles (W. S.W.) from Oxford, containing 366 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford, endowed with £ 1100 private benefaction, £400 royal bounty, and £900 parliamentary grant, and'in the patronage of the President and Fellows of St. John's College, Oxford. The church is dedicated to St. Denis.