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"EARLY, a liberty in the parish of Sonning, hundred of Charlton, county Berks, 2 miles S. of Sonning, and 2 E. of Reading. It is situated on the river Loddon. The village is considerable. The living is a perpetual curacy* in the diocese of Oxford, value £100, in the gift of the Vicar of Sonning. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, was built some few years back. There is also a school, and several good residences."
"WOODLEY AND SANDFORD, a liberty in the parish and hundred of Sonning, county Berks, 3 miles N.E. of Reading. The village is situated near the bank of the Thames, and the line of the Great Western railway.
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))
| Christ Church Woodley (Methodist/United Reformed) , Woodley, United Reform Church |
| Sonning, Congregational |
| Wokingham Road Primitive Methodist Church, Earley, Primitive Methodist |
| Woodley Methodists, Woodley, Primitive Methodist |
| Mount Zion church |
Further information about some of the churches can be found below:
- Roman Catholic:
- Bulmershe Court Catholic chapel at Woodley Lodge (near the present-day Bulmershe College), built in 1802 (now closed?)
- Our Lady of Peace and Blessed Dominic Barberi, Earley
- Congregational Chapels: For early history, see The History of the Congregational Churches in the Berks, etc
- Sonning - services started c1805, still going in 1905, now closed?
- Woodley (now URC/Methodist)
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Sonning to another place.
- Sonning was partly in the hundreds of Sonning and Charlton (Berkshire) and partly in that of Binfield (Oxfordshire)
- See the Bibliography and search the BRO's holdings
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SU763762 (Lat/Lon: 51.479621, -0.902677), Sonning 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.
Sonning was in the Wokingham Union. For more information, see Poorhouses.