Wigginton

"WIGGINTON, a par. in the hund. of Bloxham, co. Oxford, 6 miles S.W. of Banbury, and 5 N.W. of Deddington. The village is situated on the river Sucre, or Sweir, and appears to have been a Roman settlement from the remains of tesselated pavements and coins of Constantine which have been found. In 1824 the site of a Roman villa was partially uncovered, one room of which was semi-octagonal, measuring 20 feet by 14, and another 20 feet by 17½, both paved with tesseræ of various colours and heated by flues under the floor. The living is a rect. in the dioc. of Oxford, val. £290, in the patron. of Jesus College, Oxford. The church is dedicated to St. Giles. There is a Dissenting chapel and a parochial school." [The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]