Uffington Berkshire Family History Guide
Uffington is an Ancient Parish in the county of Berkshire.
Other places in the parish include: Woolstone.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin: 1654
Nonconformists include: Society of Friends/Quaker
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Uffington
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
UFFINGTON, a parish, with a village, in Faringdon district, Berks; on the Wilts and Berks canal, and on the Great Western railway, and in the White Horse vale, under the White Horse hill, 4½ miles S by E of Great Faringdon.
It took its name from the Saxon king Uffa; it is described in the opening chapter of “Tom Brown’s School-days;” and it has a post-office under Faringdon, and a r. station.
Acres, 6,650. Real property, £8,037. Pop., 1,081. Houses, 246. Uffington and Woolstone manors, with Ashdown Park, belong to the Earl of Craven; and Balking manor belongs to E. N. Atkins, Esq.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £340. Patron, Eyre, Esq. The church is early English, cruciform, and good.
The p. curacy of Balking-with-Woolstone is a separate benefice.
There are a Baptist chapel, a boys’ endowed school with £40 a year, and a girls’ subscription school.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Woolstone
The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851
Woolstone, anciently Wolverichton, a chapelry in the parish of Uffington, hund. of Shrivington, union of Farringdon, county of Berks; 5½ miles south by east of Great-Farringdon, south of the Great Western railway.
Living, a curacy sub-ordinate to the vicarage of Uffington. Tithes commuted in 1777. There is a daily female school here, founded in 1832.
The boys of this township are eligible to the endowed school at Uffington. Acreage with the parish. Houses 37. A. P. £2,021. Pop., in 1801, 208; in 1831, 270. Poor rates, in 1838, £117 16s.
Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851.
Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850
Wolstone, 4½ miles from Wantage. P. included in Uffington.
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: Faringdon
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Berkshire
- Diocese: Pre-1836 – Salisbury, Post-1835 – Oxford
- Rural Deanery: Abingdon
- Poor Law Union: Faringdon
- Hundred: Shrivenham
- Province: Canterbury