Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BEENHAM, or Beenham-Vallence

BEENHAM, or Beenham-Vallence, a parish in Bradfield district, Berks; adjacent to the Kennet and Avon canal and to the Berks and Hants railway, 1 ¼. mile N of Aldermaston station, and 8½ WSW of Reading. It has a post office, of the name of Beenham, under Reading. Acres, 1,890. Real property, £2,548. Pop., 505. Houses, 105. The property is much subdivided. Beenham House and Beenham Lodge are chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £250.* Patron, Mrs. Bushnell. The church was chiefly rebuilt in 1860. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel and a national school. Stackhouse, the author of the "History of the Bible," was vicar.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Beenham CP/AP       Bradfield RegD/PLU       Berkshire AncC
Place names: BEENHAM     |     BEENHAM OR BEENHAM VALLENCE     |     BEENHAM VALLENCE
Place: Beenham

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