Chieveley with Winterbourne and Oare Berkshire Family History Guide

Chieveley with Winterbourne and Oare is an Ancient Parish in the county of Berkshire. Leckhampstead and Winterbourne are chapelries of Chieveley with Winterbourne and Oare.

Other places in the parish include: Winterbourne, Winterbourn, Oare, Snelsmore, Curridge, and Courage.

Alternative names: Cheveley, Chieveley

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1560
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1607

Separate registers exist for Oare:

Parish registers: 1802
Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include: Baptist, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Primitive Methodist, Protestant Dissenters, Society of Friends/Quaker, and Wesleyan Methodist.

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Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

Chieveley

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

CHEVELEY, or Chieveley, a village and a parish in Newbury district, Berks. The village stands 4½ miles N by E of Newbury; and has a post office under Newbury.

The parish includes also the hamlet of Oare, and the tythings of Courage, Snelsmore, Leckhampstead, and Winterbourn. Acres, 7,397. Real property, £8,673. Pop., 1,923. Houses, 431. The property is subdivided.

The living is a vicarage, united with the p. curacies of Oare, Leckhampstead, Courage, and Winterbourn, in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £1,460. Patron, alternately J. Dandery, Esq., and Miss Wasey. There are four churches, a church-school, three dissenting chapels, an endowed school, and charities £70.

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

Oare

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

OARE, a chapelry in Chieveley parish, Berks; 2½ miles E of Chieveley village, and 5½ N by W of Thatcham r. station. Post-town, Chieveley, under Newbury. The statistics are returned with the parish. The living is ap. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Chieveley, in the diocese of Oxford. The church is later English, has a bell-turret. and was recently restored. There is a Quakers’ burying-ground, long disused.

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

Winterbourne

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WINTERBOURN, a chapelry in Chieveley parish, Berks; 3¾ miles NNW of Newbury r. station. Post town, Newbury. Real property, £3,432. Pop., 377. Houses, 82. The property is divided among a few. The living is annexed to Chieveley. The church was recently restored.

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