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Topographical Dictionary of England, Lewis, 1831

Enstone, Oxfordshire

ENSTONE (CHURCH), a parish in the hundred of CHADLINGTON, county of OXFORD, comprising the hamlets of Cleveley, Church-Enstone, Neat-Enstone, Gagingwell, Lidstone, and Radford, and containing 1077 inhabitants, of which number, 254 are in the hamlet of Church-Enstone, ¾ of a mile (N. by E.) from Neat-Enstone, and 326 in Neat-Enstone, 15 miles (N.W. by N.) from Oxford. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford, rated in the king's books at £9. 14. 4., endowed with £800 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of C. D. Lee, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Kenelm. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.