Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CRUX-EASTON

CRUX-EASTON, a parish in Kingsclere district, Hants; 5¾ miles NNW of Whitchurch r. station, and 7 WSW of Kingsclere. Post town, Highclere, under Newbury. Acres, 1, 099. Real property, £780. Pop., 76. Houses, 17. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged, at Domesday, to Croch the Hunter. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £180.* Patron, the Rev. James Bagge. The church is good. A grotto was here, now extinct, built by nine sisters of the name of Lisle, and sung as follows by Pope, -

Here shunning idleness at once and praise,
This radiant pile nine rural sisters raise;
The glittering emblem of each spotless dame,
Pure as her soul and shining as her fame. -
Beauty which nature only can impart,
And such a polish as disgraces art;
But fate disposed them in this humble sort,
And hid in deserts what would charm a court.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Crux Easton CP/AP       Kingsclere RegD/PLU       Hampshire AncC
Place: Crux Easton

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