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See How to Edit and Style and How-to for help, or this article's talk page. Ewelme, is a beautifully situated village and parish 10 miles north-west from Henley, 4 miles east from Wallingford and 3 miles south-west of Watlington, in the Southern division of the county, hundred of Ewelme, petty sessional division of Watlington, union and county court district of Wallingford, rural deanary of Aston and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford.
The parish church is St. Marys.
A remarkably fine spring, forming a rapid stream, which empties itself into the Thames and which ( from the Saxon word "ea," signifying a spring of water ) gives its name to the place.
The principle landowners in the 1750s where Thomas Heath, John Franklin, William Hale,
The soil is chalk and gravel over galt. The chief crops are Wheat and other cereals and artificial grasses. There is very little pasture or natural grass, The area is 2,376 acres; rateable value, £2,969; and the population in 1881 was 602.
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