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Topographical Dictionary of England, Lewis, 1831

Great Tew, Oxfordshire

TEW (GREAT), a parish in the hundred of WOOTTON, county of OXFORD, 3¾ miles (N.N.E.) from Neat-Enstone, containing, with the chapelry of Little Tew, 760 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford, rated in the king's books at £6.13.4., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of G.F. Stratton, Esq. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, has lately received an addition of three hundred and nien sittings, of which two hundred and fifty-seven are free, the Incorporated Society for the enlargement of churches and chapels having granted £200 towards defraying the expense. Thomas Edwards Freeman, in 1781, gave an annuity of £12 for the education of ten children of each sex.