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"DRAYTON, a parish in the hundred of Ock, in the county of Berks, 2 miles S.W. of Abingdon, its post town. The Berks and Wilts canal and the Great Western railway pass near it. A fire took place here in 1780, which destroyed upwards of thirty houses. The living is a curacy annexed to the vicarage of Abingdon, in the diocese of Oxford. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, is a small Gothic structure, with a square embattled tower. The charities amount to £37 per annum. The Baptists and Wesleyans have each a chapel. Lewis Lloyd Esq., is lord of the manor."
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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| St Peter, Drayton, Church of England |
Further information about some of the churches can be found below:
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Drayton to another place.
- Drayton was in the hundred of Ock
- Search the Berkshire FHS library and shop and the BRO for their holdings
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SU480941 (Lat/Lon: 51.643659, -1.307715), Drayton 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.
Drayton was in the Abingdon Union. For more information, see Poorhouses.