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.
ARBORFIELD, a parish in Wokingham district, Berks; on the river Loddon, 4 miles W of Wokingham r. station. Arborfield Cross, 1¼ mile SE of the village, has a post office under Reading. Acres in the parish, 1,466. Real property, £3,975. Pop., 286. Houses, 65. The property is divided among a few. The manor for merly belonged to the Bullocks, one of whom was "Hugh of the Brazen Band;" and the old manor-house, called in "Our Village," the "Old House at Aberleigh," was the deathplace, in 1730, of Edward Standen, Esq., the per son alluded to in the ballad of "Molly Mogg of the Rose." The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £345.* Patron, Lord Braybrooke. The church was built in 1863, and is in the middle pointed style.
(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: | Arborfield CP/Ch Wokingham RegD/PLU Berkshire AncC |
| Place: | Arborfield |
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