SHELSWELL, a parish in the hundred of PLOUGHLEY,
county of OXFORD, 6 miles (N. N. B.) from Bicester,
containing 51 inhabitants. The living is a rectory,
annexed to that of Newton-Purcell, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Oxford, rated in the king's books at £4.
The church, which was dedicated to St. Ebbe, has been
long desecrated.