Basildon, Berkshire Family History Guide
Basildon is an Ancient Parish in the county of Berkshire.
Altrnative names: Basilden
Parish church:
Parish registers begin: 1538
Nonconformists include: Countess of Huntingdon Methodist and Independent/Congregational.
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BASILDEN, or Basildon, a parish in Bradfield district, Berks; on the river Thames, and on the Great Western railway, 1 mile SSE of Goring station, and 7¾ WNW of Reading. Post Town, Pangbourne, under Reading. Acres, 3,083. Real property, £4,875. Pop., 712. Houses, 148. The property is divided among a few.
Basilden Park was the seat of the Viscounts Fane from 1718 till 1766; passed then to the baronet family of Sykes; and was recently purchased by T. Morrison, Esq. The house contains a fine collection of works of art. The railway crosses the Thames a short distance above the church. The parish had two churches at Domesday, and afterwards the right of a weekly market.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £200. Patron, the Rev. W. Sykes. The church is ancient. There is a dissenting chapel.
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
Bassildon, 6 m. S.E.E. Ilsley, P. 812.
Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.
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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