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Topographical Dictionary of England, Lewis, 1831

Great Rollright, Oxfordshire

ROLLRIGHT (GREAT), a parish in the hundred od CHADLINGTON, county of OXFORD, 3 miles (N. by E.) from Chipping-Norton, containing 419 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford, rated in the king's books at £16. 9. 4½., and in the patronage of the Principal and Fellows of Brasenose College, Oxford. The church is dedicated to St. Andrew. The Rev. James Parker, in 1780, bequeathed £100 towards the support of a school for teaching poor children to read. This parish was noted among agriculturists for a peculiar species of cattle, called the Rollright breed.