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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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LONGWORTH, a village in Faringdon district, and a parish partly also in Abingdon district, Berks. The village stands 1 mile S of the river Isis, at the boundary with Oxford, 6 N by W of Wantage-Road r. station, and 7 ENE of Faringdon; and has a post office, under Faringdon. The parish contains also the chapelry of Charney, and the hamlet of Draycot-Moor. Acres, 4,415. Real property, £3,978. Pop., 1,131. Houses, 255. The manor belonged once to Sir H. Marten, the father of the regicide; and belongs now to Sidney Pusey, Esq. A Roman camp, and the reputed site of a palace of Canute, are at Cherbury. The living is a rectory, united with the chapelry of Charney, in the diocese of Oxford. Valne, £1,000. * Patron, Jesus College, Oxford. The church is Saxon, in tolerable condition,.roughcast and whitened; contains several old brasses; and stands on an eminence, commanding a fine view over the rich outspread basin of the Isis. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a national school, and charities £45. Bishop Fell was a native, and his father was rector.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Abingdon RegD/PLU Berkshire AncC |
| Place: | Longworth |
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