Ardington, Berkshire Family History Guide
Ardington is an Ancient Parish in the county of Berkshire.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin: 1674
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
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.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850
Ardington, 2 miles N.E. Wantage. P. 405.
Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850
Directories
Ardington Berkshire Cassey History Gazetteer and Directory of Berkshire and Oxfordshire 1868
Is a parish and village in the hundred and union of Wantage, and diocese of Oxford, two miles from the Wantage road station on the Great Western Railway, which crosses the Berks and Wilts Canal in this parish. The church of the Holy Trinity is in the Early English style. The living is a vicarage, in the patronage of Christ Church, Oxford.The population in 1861 was 354; the parish comprises. 1,775 acres. Colonel Lloyd Lindsay is lord of the manor and owner of the soil.
Letters through Wantage.
Barnes Rev. Ralph, M.A.
Tyrwhitt Rev. R., M.A.
Ballard Joseph, blacksmith
Brown Charles, carpenter
Chase James, Boar’s Head
Dolby Edwin, clerk of works to Colonel Lindsay
Phillips John, farmer and maltster
Richards Thomas, farmer
Taylor Charles, shopkeeper
Watson Thomas, farm bailiff to Colonel Lindsay
Whitfield Wm., farmer, Aldington farm
Source: Edward Cassey and Co.’s History, Gazetteer and Directory of Berkshire and Oxfordshire 1868.
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Berkshire
- Civil Registration District: Wantage
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Berkshire
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Oxford, Pre-1836 – Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Abingdon
- Poor Law Union: Wantage
- Hundred: Wantage
- Province: Canterbury