SANDFORD, a parish in the hundred of BULLINGTON,
county of OXFORD, 3 miles (S, S. E.) from Oxford,
containing 193 inhabitants. The living is a donative,
in the patronage of the Duke of Marlborough. The
church is dedicated to St. Andrew. The parish is
bounded on the west by the river Isis, on which there
is an extensive paper-mill. Here was a preceptory of
Knights Templars, founded by Queen Maud, Consort
of Stephen, the preceptor and brethren of which had
the management of most of the estates belonging to
that order in the neighbouring counties.