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"ENGLEFIELD, a parish in the hundred of Theale, county Berks, 6 miles W. of Reading, its post town. The river Kennet passes through the neighbourhood, and the Pangbourne station on the Great Western railway is about 1 mile S. of the village. This place was called Englafeld by the Saxons, and an engagement took place here between them and the Danes, in which the latter were defeated. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford, value £450. The church is a very old edifice, and contains many monuments and tombs of the Englefield and other families. The parochial charities produce about £30 per annum. There is a National school. Englefield House is the residence of R. B. de Beauvoir, Esq., who 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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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))
Further information about some of the churches can be found below:
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Englefield to another place.
- Englefield was in the hundred of Theale.
- A small group of plans which have strayed from the Englefield Estate archive are available from the BRO (D/EZ175).
- Search the Berkshire FHS library and shop and the BRO for their holdings.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SU624720 (Lat/Lon: 51.443563, -1.103546), Englefield 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.
Englefield was in the Bradfield Union. For more information, see Poorhouses.