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EARLEIGH, Earley, or Early, a liberty and a chapelry in Sonning parish, Berks. The liberty lies near the Reading and Guildford railway, 2½ miles SE of Reading; and has a post office under Reading, and a r. station. Real property, £5, 065. Pop., 566. Houses, 118. E. Court -belongs to Viscount Sidmouth; Maiden-Earleigh, to B. Golding, Esq. The chapelry includes part of Woodley, and was constituted in 1854. Pop., 774. Houses, 154. The living is a vicarage in the dio. of Oxford. Value, £175.* Patron, the Vicar of Sonning, The church was built in 1844.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a liberty and a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
Administrative units: | Sonning AP/CP Berkshire AncC |
Place names: | EARLEIGH | EARLEIGH EARLEY OR EARLY | EARLEY | EARLY |
Place: | Earley |
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