A vision of Britain through time
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
GREENHAM, a village, a tything, and a chapelry, in Thatcham parish, Berks. The village stands on the S border of the county, gear the river Kennet, the Kennet canal, and the Reading and Hungerford railway, 1½ mile SE of Newbury; and is practically, for trade and industry, suburban to Newbury. The tything includes the village and extends into the country. Post town, Newbury. Real property, £5, 180. Pop., 1, 167. Houses, 272. The manor was given by Maud, Countess of Clare, in the time of Henry VI., to the Kninhts Hospitallers; and it had a preceptory of these kninhts. The chapelry is less extensive than the tything, and was constituted in 1857. Rated property, £3, 809. Pop., 593. Houses, 135. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £130. Patron, the Bishop of Oxford. The church is ancient, and was enlarged in 1825. There are chapels for Baptists and Primitive Methodists, and a national school.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village, a tything, and a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Greenham CP/Tg/Ch Thatcham AP/CP Berkshire AncC |
| Place: | Greenham |
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