Kingston Lisle, Berkshire Family History Guide

Kingston Lisle is a chapelry of Sparsholt Ancient Parish in Berkshire. Kingston Lisle was part of Berkshire until the 1974 local government boundary changes transferred the Vale of White Horse to Oxfordshire.

Other places in the parish include: Fawler.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin: 1559

Nonconformists include: Baptist

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Kingston Lisle

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

KINGSTON-LISLE, a village and a chapelry in Sparsholt parish, Berks. The village stands near the Ridge-way, and near the Wilts and Berks canal, 2¾ miles S W of Challow r. station, and 4½ W of Wantage; and has a post-office under Wantage. The chapelry contains also the hamlet of Fawler. Acres, 2,060. Real property, £3, 186. Pop., 370. Houses, 73. The manor, with Kingston-Lisle House, belongs to E. M. Atkins, Esq.

The Blowing stone, near the village, measures about 3½ feet in breadth, 2 in width, and 3 in height; is pierced, on each side, with holes; and, on being hastily blown into at any of the holes, emits a sound which can be heard at a distance of 6 miles. It is a kind of red sandstone; and is traditionally said to have formerly been used for giving alarm on the approach of an enemy. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Sparsholt, in the diocese of Oxford. The church is old, has a small tower, and was restored in 1865.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851

Kingston-Lisle and Harlow, a chapelry in the parish of Sparsholt, county of Berks; 4½ miles west of Wantage, in the line of the Wilts and Berks canal, and of the Great Western railway. Living, a curacy subordinate to the vicarage of Sparsholt. The Baptists have a place of worship here, and there is a daily school. Acres 2,060. Houses 34. A.P. £2,933. Pop., in 1801, 261; in 1831, 376. Poor rates, in 1838, £165 12s.

Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851.

Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850

Kingston-Lisle and Farlow, 5 m. W. Wantage. P. 397

Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.

Fawler

Lewis Topographical Dictionary of England 1845

Farlow, or Fawler, with Kingston-Lisle, a chapelry, in the parish of Sparsholt, union of Farringdon, hundred of Shrivenham, county of Berks., 5¼ miles (W.) from Wantage; containing 397 inhabitants, of whom 144 are in the hamlet of Fawler. The chapel, dedicated to St. James, has been pulled down, and a new one built in a more convenient situation at Kingston-Lisle. A school is supported by endowment and subscription.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis Fifth Edition Published London; by S. Lewis and Co., 13, Finsbury Place, South. M. DCCC. XLV.