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CHILTON, a parish in Wantage district, Berks; adjacent to Icknield-street and Blewberry plain, 3½ miles N of East Ilsley, and 4 S by E of Steventon r. station. It has a post office under Steventon, Berkshire. Acres, 415. Real property, £2, 229. Pop., 315. Houses, 51. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged to the Lattons; and the manor-house, now modernized, bears the name of Latton's Place. Many Roman antiquities have been found in the neighbourhood, on Hagbourn hill. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £400. Patron, G. Morland, Esq. The church is recent. Charities, £11.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
Administrative units: | Chilton AP/CP Wantage RegD/PLU Berkshire AncC |
Place: | Chilton |
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