Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Hendred like this:

HENDRED, a sub-district in Wantage district, Berks; containing the parishes of East Hendred and West Hendred, four other parishes, and parts of two others. Acres, 19, 060. Pop., 4, 369. Houses, 950.

This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Hendred by doing a full-text search here.


Travel writing

Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
East Hendred 0 3
West Hendred 0 2
Chilton 0 3
Harwell 0 2
Ardington 0 2
Lockinge 0 2
Upton 0 2
West Ilsley 0 3
Milton 0 2
West Lockinge 0 1
Steventon 0 2
Charlton 0 2
Farnborough 0 2
Blewbury 0 2
Hagbourne 0 3
East Ilsley 0 4
Didcot 0 2
Ilsley 0 1
Wantage 2 3
Catmore 0 2