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"WOOLHAMPTON, a parish in the hundred of Theale, county Berks, 7 miles E. of Newbury, and 10 W. of Reading. It is a station on the Reading section of the Great Western railway. The parish is intersected by the navigable river Kennet and the Kennet and Avon canal. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford, value £210. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, contains some ancient tombs and an antique font. The Roman Catholics and Independents have chapels. There are a few small charities."
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), Woolhampton, Congregational |
Further information about some of the churches can be found below:
- Congregational Chapel: Now closed? For early history, see The History of the Congregational Churches in the Berks, etc
- Roman Catholic: Baptisms 1732-1800 and Confirmations 1741-1811 are held by the Catholic National Library
- Douai Abbey (English Benedictine monks at Upper Woolhampton)
- Catholic Register of Ufton Court, Berkshire, and Woolhampton (1889) by Frederick Arthur Crisp, full text free from Internet Archive
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Woolhampton to another place.
- Woolhampton was in the hundred of Theale
- See the Bibliography and search the BRO's holdings
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SU575672 (Lat/Lon: 51.400925, -1.174819), Woolhampton 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.
Woolhampton was in the Newbury Union. For more information, see Poorhouses.