A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
ARDINGTON, a parish in Wantage district, Berks; on an affluent of the Thames, near the Wilts and Berks canal and the Great Western railway, 2 miles E of Wantage, and 4 SW of Steventon r. station. Post Town, Wantage. Acres, 1,775. Real property, £3,518. Pop., 354. Houses, 78. Ardington House was the residence of Clarke the antiquary, and the seat of Robert Vernon, Esq., who collected here the "Vernon Gallery" of pictures, which he left to the nation, and died in 1849. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value not reported.* Patron, Christ's Church, Oxford. The church is good, and has a tomb of R. Vernon.
(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: | Ardington CP/AP Wantage RegD/PLU Berkshire AncC |
| Place: | Ardington |
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