In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Goosey like this:
GOOSEY, a chapelry in Stanford-in-the-Vale parish, Berks; near the river Ock and the Great Western railway, 3½ miles NW by N of Wantage. Post town, Stanford-in-the-Vale, under Faringdon. Acres, 958. Real property, £2, 397. Pop., 202. Houses, 37. The property is divided among a few. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Stanford-in-the-Vale, in the diocese of Oxford. The church is good.
Goosey through time
Goosey is now part of Vale of White Horse district. Click here for graphs and data of how Vale of White Horse has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Goosey itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Goosey, in Vale of White Horse and Berkshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1431
Date accessed: 23rd April 2024
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