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CHEVELEY, or Chieveley, a village and a parish in Newbury district, Berks. The village stands 4½-miles N by E of Newbury; and has a post office under Newbury. The parish includes also the hamlet of Oare, and the tythings of Courage, Snelsmore, Leckhampstead, and Winterbourn. Acres, 7, 397. Real property, £8, 673. Pop., 1, 923. Houses, 431. The property is subdivided. The living is a vicarage, united with the p. curacies of Oare, Leckhampstead, Courage, and Winterbourn, in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £1, 460.* Patron, alternately J. Dandery, Esq., and Miss Wasey. There are four churches, a church-school, three dissenting chapels, an endowed school, and charities £70.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
Administrative units: | Chieveley AP/CP Newbury RegD/PLU Berkshire AncC |
Place names: | CHEVELEY | CHEVELEY OR CHIEVELEY | CHIEVELEY |
Place: | Chieveley |
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