Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for STOCKCROSS

STOCKCROSS, a chapelry in Speen parish, Berks; 2½ miles WNW of Newbury r. station. It was constituted in 1844; and it has a post-office under Newbury. Pop., 815. Houses, 191. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £125.* Patron, the Vicar of Speen. The church was built in 1839. There are a Wesleyan chapel and two parochial schools.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Speen AP/CP       Berkshire AncC
Place: Stockcross

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