Ashampstead, Berkshire Family History Guide
Ashampstead is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Berkshire, created in 1847 from a chapelry in Basildon Ancient Parish.
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Parish registers begin: 1686
Nonconformists include: Baptist, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
ASHAMPSTEAD, a parish in Bradfield district, Berks; 6 miles W of Pangbourne r. station, and 10½ W by N of Reading. It has a post office under Reading. Acres, 2,057. Real property, £2,316. Pop., 385. Houses, 87. Part of the land is common. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £80. Patrons, Rev. W. Sykes and Simeon’s Trustees. There are two dissenting chapels, a free school, and charities £12.
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
Ashamstead, 4 m. S. E. East Ilsley. P. 404.
Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850
Directories
Ashampstead Berkshire Cassey History Gazetteer and Directory of Berkshire and Oxfordshire 1868
Is a small village and parish, 10 miles west from Reading, 9 from Wallingford, and 45 from London, in the hundred of Moreton, union of Bradfield, and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Clement is a plain structure, which was repaired in 1849. The living is a vicarage, annual value £80, in the alternate gift of the Rev. William Sykes, and the trustees of the late Rev. Charles Simeon. Here is a school, supported by voluntary subscriptions. The Baptists and Primitive Methodists have each a small chapel here.The population in 1861 was 385; the acreage is 2,057.
John Hopkins, Esq., is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is clay and chalk.
Letters arrive from Reading at 9 a.m. ; dispatched at 5 p.m.
Holding Rev. John, M.A., Vicarage
Nullis Mr. Isaac
Smith Mr. Thomas
Albury James, wheelwright
Butler William, carpenter
Fuller Henry, baker & shopkeeper
Hancock James, tailor and shopkeeper
Isley Charles, shopkeeper
Lanfear William, farmer
Nullis George, shoemaker
Poole Henry, farmer, valuer, and land agent, Pitt house
Robins John, blacksmith
Shepherd Thomas, farmer
Shepherd Thomas Edward, farmer
Source: Edward Cassey and Co.’s History, Gazetteer and Directory of Berkshire and Oxfordshire 1868.
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Administration
- County: Berkshire
- Civil Registration District: Bradfield
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Berkshire
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Oxford, Pre-1836 – Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Wallingford
- Poor Law Union: Bradfield
- Hundred: Moreton
- Province: Canterbury