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"AVINGTON, a parish and pleasant village in the hundred of Kintbury Eagle, in the county of Berks, 2 miles to the E. of Hungerford. It lies in the pleasant open valley of the river Kennet. The Hungerford branch of the Great Western railway, and the Kennet and Avon canal run through the the diocese of Oxford, of the value of £300, in the patronage of Sir R. Burdett, Bart. The church is an interesting example of the Norman style, and contains a circular font, the sides of which are adorned with niched figures rudely sculptured. The principal mansion is Barton Court, the seat of Admiral Dundas, M.P."
From The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland(1868). Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003.
Other descriptions can be found from other periods in various trade directories covering Berkshire from the early 19th century onwards from Berkshire FHS (members only) and from A Vision of Britain Through Time.
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Descriptions of some of the churches can be found at:
- Avington St Mark & St Luke is sold for private use
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Avington to another place.
- Avington was in the hundred of Kintbury Eagle
- Search the Berkshire FHS library and shop and the BRO for their holdings
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SU366700 (Lat/Lon: 51.42783, -1.474954), Avington which are provided by:
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- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
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- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
Avington was in the Hungerford Union. For more information, see Poorhouses.