East Lockinge Berkshire Family History Guide
East Lockinge is an Ancient Parish in the county of Berkshire.
Other places in the parish include: West Ginge and Betterton.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin: 1546
Nonconformists include:
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The gazetteers refer to East and West Lockinge. West Lockinge is a hamlet in the parish of Wantage.
East Lockinge
The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851
Lockinge (East and West), a parish in tbe hund. and union of Wantage, county of Berks; 2½ miles east-south-east of Wantage, in the line of the Great Western railway.
The parish includes the tything of Betterton and West Ginge. Living, a rectory, formerly in the archd. of Berks and dio. of Salisbury, now in tbe dio. of Oxford; rated at £31 10s.; gross income £549. Tithes of East Lockinge commuted in 1840; aggregate amount £520. Patron, the warden of All Soul’s college, Oxford.
Here are 2 daily and 2 evening schools. Charities, in 1837, about £7 per annum. Acres 3,680. Houses 77. A. P. £3,853. Pop., in 1801, 305; in 1831, 373.
Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851.
Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850
Lockinge (East and West), 1 m. E. Wantage. P. 325.
Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.
Betterton
The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851
Betterton, a tything in the parish of Lockinge, Berks; 2½ miles east-south-east of Wantage, in the vicinity of the Berks and Wilts canal.
Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851.
Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850
Betterton and West Ginge, in Lockinge parish. P. 17
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: Wantage
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Berkshire
- Diocese: Pre-1836 – Salisbury, Post-1835 – Oxford
- Rural Deanery: Abingdon
- Poor Law Union: Wantage
- Hundred: Wantage
- Province: Canterbury