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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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AVINGTON, a parish in Hungerford district, Berks; on the Kennet river, the Kennet and Avon canal, and the Newbury branch of the Great Western railway, 2½ miles E of Hungerford. Post Town, Hungerford. Acres, 1,143. Real property, £1,285. Pop., 104. Houses, 18. The property is not much divided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £300.* Patron, Sir R. Burdett, Bart. The church is an interesting specimen of Norman architecture, with two early English windows, and a small early English spire-bell turret. The chancel is separated from the nave by an arch, richly ornamented with zigzag moulding and a great variety of grotesque heads, which has so settled as to look almost like two arches, and springs from enriching piers leaning outwards. The font also is Norman, of a circular form, and adorned with rudely sculptured figures. The church was repaired in 1849. The parsonage stands adjacent, and is picturesque.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Avington CP/AP Hungerford and Ramsbury RegD/PLU Berkshire AncC |
| Place: | Avington |
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