SHOTTSWELL, a parish in the Burton-Dassett division of the hundred of KINGTON, county of WARWICK, 4 miles (N. N. W.) from Banbury, containing 268 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Coventry, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the king's books at £5. 13. 4., and in the patronage of the Earl of Guildford. The church is dedicated to St. Lawrence. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan. Methodists.