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"BURGHFIELD, a parish in the hundred of Theale, in the county of Berks, 4 miles to the S.W. of Reading, its post town. It is pleasantly situated on the banks of the river Kennet, near the Hungerford branch of the Great Western railway. The Rennet is crossed by a very old bridge. A stratum of sand with cockle shells was discovered some time since at Hose Hill, several yards below the surface. The parish contains a tract of common the diocese of Oxford, of the annual value of £700, in the patronage of the Earl of Shrewsbury. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. It is an ancient building, and has a wooden monument to a crusader. There are charitable endowments for the poor, producing about £20 per annum."
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 and from A Vision of Britain Through Time.
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In addition to those listed on the Berkshire home page, see the Research Wiki from Family Search (the Church of Latter-day Saints (Genealogical Society of Utah))
| St Mary the Virgin, Burghfield, Church of England |
| St Mary, Burghfield Common, Church of England |
| Methodist Chapel , Burghfield Common, Primitive Methodist |
| Methodist Chapel, Burghfield Hill, Primitive Methodist |
| Methodist Chapel, Burghfield, Wesleyan Methodist |
| St Joseph/St Oswald, Burghfield, Roman Catholic |
Further information about some of the churches can be found below:
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Burghfield to another place.
- Burghfield was in the hundred of Theale
- Search the Berkshire FHS library and shop and the BRO for their holdings
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SU667685 (Lat/Lon: 51.411607, -1.042343), Burghfield which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- 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.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
Burghfield was in the Bradfield Union. For more information, see Poorhouses.