Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ILSLEY (WEST)

ILSLEY (WEST), a village and a parish in Wantage district, Berks. The village stands in a deep valley, under the Downs, near Ickleton street, 1½ mile NW of East Ilsley, and 6¼ S of Steventon r. station; and has a post office under Newbury. The parish comprises 3, 670 acres. Real property, £3, 474. Pop., 432. Houses, 95. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to Col. L. Lindsay. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £537. * Patrons, the Dean and Canons of Windsor. The church is late poor pendicular, and has a bell turret. There is a national school. Antonio de Dominis, archbishop of Spalatro, and Goodman, bishop of Gloucester, were rectors; and the latter was visited here, in 1644, by Charles I. on his way to Donnington castle.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: West Ilsley CP/AP       Wantage RegD/PLU       Berkshire AncC
Place names: ILSLEY     |     ILSLEY WEST     |     WEST ILSLEY
Place: West Ilsley

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