ANTiaUITIES FOUND AT WOODPERRY,

OXON. SITE OF THE AMCIENT CHORCH. WOODPERRY. WooDPERRy*, a hamlet or tithing of the parish of Stanton St. John, in the neighbom'hoocl of Oxford, appears, by the numerous antiquities of many periods there discovered, to have lieen a place of popular resort by successive races from the earliest times, until the church and village, as traditionally reported, were totally destroyed by a conflagration. The neighbom-hood abounds with Roman remains, amongst which may be inchided the newly discovered villa at Wheatley, described in No. 8 of the Joiniial ; and at the distance of about half a mile ran the line of the great road between Eboracum and Clausentum, given in the 18th iter of Ricardus Corhiensis, a portion of which has been ably illustrated by Mr. riussey ; but there was no suspicion of any thing Roman '1 Tliis name is so spelt in conformity distant, with the modern usage and pronunciation; An account of the Roman road from but the earlier forms give Wodehury, pire, Allchcster to Dorchester, by the Rev. pery, &c., with one r, which is the case Robert Hussey, B.D., 8vo. 1841, Oxford, also with Waterpery, a village not far for the Ashmolean Society.