Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for GRAZELEY

GRAZELEY, a chapelry in the parishes of Shinfield, Sulhampstead Abbots, and Sulhampstead Bannister, Berks; gear the Reading and Basingstoke railway, 4 mile SSW of Reading. It was constituted in 1854; and its post town is Shinfield, under Reading. Pop., 648. Houses, 131. Pop. of the Shinfield porting, 462. Houses, 92. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £35. * Patron, the Bishop of Oxford.


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

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Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Berkshire AncC
Place: Grazeley

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