Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Wallingford Castle Precincts

Wallingford Castle Precincts, par., Berks, partly in bor. of Wallingford, 31 ac., pop. 23; a strong castle was here constructed by William the Conqueror; it figured in the history of successive monarchy down to Charles I. in 1646, when it was taken and dismantled by Fairfax; only a small fragment of wall remains.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

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Feature Description: "parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Wallingford Castle Precincts CP/ExP       Berkshire AncC
Place: Wallingford

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