Longworth, Berkshire Family History Guide
Longworth is an Ancient Parish in the county of Berkshire. Charney Bassett is a chapelry of Longworth.
Other places in the parish include: Draycot Moor.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1559
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1607
Nonconformists include: Baptist and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
- Bampton Aston with Shifford, Oxfordshire
- Charney Bassett
- Kingston Bagpuize
- Standlake, Oxfordshire
- Northmoor, Oxfordshire
- Hinton Waldrist
- Lyford
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
LONGWORTH, a village in Faringdon district, and a parish partly also in Abingdon district, Berks.
The village stands 1 mile S of the river Isis, at the boundary with Oxford, 6 N by W of Wantage-Road r. station, and 7 ENE of Faringdon; and has a post office, under Faringdon.
The parish contains also the chapelry of Charney, and the hamlet of Draycot-Moor. Acres, 4,415. Real property, £3,978. Pop., 1,131. Houses, 255.
The manor belonged once to Sir H. Marten, the father of the regicide; and belongs now to Sidney Pusey, Esq. A Roman camp, and the reputed site of a palace of Canute, are at Cherbury.
The living is a rectory, united with the chapelry of Charney, in the diocese of Oxford. Valne, £1,000. Patron, Jesus College, Oxford. The church is Saxon, in tolerable condition,.roughcast and whitened; contains several old brasses; and stands on an eminence, commanding a fine view over the rich outspread basin of the Isis.
There are a Wesleyan chapel, a national school, and charities £45. Bishop Fell was a native, and his father was rector.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Berkshire
- Civil Registration District: Faringdon
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Berkshire
- Diocese: Pre-1836 – Salisbury, Post-1835 – Oxford
- Rural Deanery: Abingdon
- Poor Law Union: Faringdon
- Hundred: Ganfield; Ock
- Province: Canterbury