Chastleton, a parish in Chipping-Norton district, Oxford; on the verge of the county, 2 miles N of Addlestrop r. station, and 3 ½ SE of Moreton-in-the-Marsh. Post-town, Moreton-in-the-Marsh. Acres, 1,769. Real property, £3,395. Pop., 218. Houses, 43. Most of the property is in one estate. Chastleton House is a fine Tudor edifice, of the time of James I. A circular camp is near it; and a four-sided stone, 9 feet high, called the Four Shire Stone, with names of the counties of Oxford, Gloucester, Worcester, and Warwick cut on its sides, is on the boundary, at the meeting-point of these counties, 2 miles E of Moreton. A great battle was fought, in 1816, between Canute and Edmund Ironside, with severe defeat to the former, somewhere in Chastleton, and most probably round the site of the Four Shire Stone. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £518. Patron, Sir R. Westmacott. The church is good; and there are charities £23.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
