Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WOOLSTONE

WOOLSTONE, a township-chapelry in Uffington parish, Berks; 1½ mile S of Uffington r. station. Post town, Uffington, under Faringdon. Acres, 1,674. Real property, £2,542. Pop., 256. Houses, 57. The manor belongs to the Earl of Craven. W. Lodge is the seat of G. B. Bruce, Esq. Many Roman antiquities have been found. The living is annexed to Baulking. The church is Norman.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township-chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Uffington CP/AP       Woolstone CP/Ch       Berkshire AncC
Place: Woolstone

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