West Challow, Berkshire Family History Guide
West Challow is a chapelry of Letcombe Regis Ancient Parish in Berkshire.
Alternative names: West Challow
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1653
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1607
Nonconformists include: Society of Friends/Quaker
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
CHALLOW (West), a chapelry in Letcombe-Regis parish, Berks; on the Berks and Wilts canal, 2 miles W by N of Wantage, and 1½ S of Faringdon Road r. station. Post Town, Wantage. Real property, £1,485. Pop., 192. Houses, 43. The property is divided among a few. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to East Challow, in the diocese of Oxford. The church is good.
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: Wantage
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Berkshire
- Diocese: Pre-1836 – Salisbury, Post-1835 – Oxford
- Rural Deanery: Abingdon
- Poor Law Union: Wantage
- Hundred: Kintbury Eagle
- Province: Canterbury