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"THEALE, a parish in the hundred of Reading, county Berks, 5 miles S.W. of Reading, its post town, and 12 from Newbury. It is a station on the Great Western railway. It is situated on the river Kennet. Until recently, it was a chapelry in the parish of Tilehurst, but was separated from it by Act of Parliament. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford, in the patronage of Magdalen College, Oxford. The church was erected in 1830 by Mrs. Sophia Sheppard. There is a National school with a small endowment."
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))
| URC (was Congregational Church), Theale, United Reform Church |
| URC (was Congregational Church), Theale, United Reform Church |
| St Luke, Theale, Roman Catholic |
Further information about some of the churches can be found below:
- Church of England: Holy Trinity (with a downloadable booklet about its history)
- Congregational Chapel: Founded c1875, rebuilt 1913, closed c1996 (block of flats on the site?). For early history, see The History of the Congregational Churches in the Berks, etc
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Theale to another place.
- Theale was in the hundred of Reading
- See the Bibliography and search the BRO's holdings
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SU642713 (Lat/Lon: 51.437069, -1.077777), Theale 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.
Theale was in the Bradfield Union. For more information, see Poorhouses.