WOOD-EATON, a parish in the hundred of BULLINGTON,
county of OXFORD, 4 miles (N, N. E.) from
Oxford, containing 69 inhabitants. The living is a
rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford,
rated in the king's books at £10.0. 10., and in the patronage
of J. Weyland, Esq. The church is dedicated
to the Holy Rood. John Collins, a distinguished mathematician,
was born here, in 1624; he died in 1683.