Whitchurch, Oxfordshire & Berkshire Family History Guide
Whitchurch is an Ancient Parish partly in Berkshire and partly in Oxfordshire.
Other places in the parish include: Whitchurch Tollhouse and Saltney Meads.
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Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1585
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1639
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
WHITCHURCH, a parish, with a village, in the district of Bradfield, and partly in Berks, but chiefly in Oxfordshire; on the river Thames, near Pangbourn r. station, and 6 miles WNW of Reading. It has a post-office under Reading. Acres, 2,070. Real property, £3,973. Pop., 857. Houses, 176.
The manor, with Combe Lodge, belongs to S. W. Gardiner, Esq. Swanston House is the seat of A. Forbes, Esq.; Thames Bank House, of J. Willan, Esq.; and Uplands, of W. B. Wood, Esq. A bridge, rebuilt in 1853, gives communication across the Thames with Pangbourn.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £500. Patron, the Bishop of O. The church was restored and enlarged in 1858.
There are a free school, and charities £27.
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: Bradfield
- Probate Court: Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and the Archdeaconry of Oxford
- Diocese: Oxford
- Rural Deanery: Henley
- Poor Law Union: Bradfield
- Hundred: Langtree
- Province: Canterbury