Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WARGRAVE

WARGRAVE, a village, a parish, a sub-district, and a hundred, in Berks. The village stands on the river Thames, and on the Henley railway, 2 miles N by W of Twyford r. station; was once a market-town; and has a post-office under Henley, an inn, and a ferry.—The parish includes part of Knowl-Hill chapelry, and comprises 4,314 acres. Real property, £12,002; of which £29 are in fisheries. Pop., 1,806. Houses, 343. The manor belongs to Lord Braybrooke. W. Court is the seat of W. Holmes, Esq.; W. Lodge, of MissAusten; and W. Hill was the residence of Cowper's friend, J. Hill The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £226.* Patron, Lord Braybrooke. The church is good; and there are endowed schools with £241 a year, and charities £55. Derham, the author of "Physico-Theology," was vicar; and Lord Barrymore was a resident.—The sub-district contains three parishes, parts of another, and an extra-parochial tract; and is in Wokingham district. Acres, 19,119. Pop., 6,658. Houses, 1,344.-The hundred contains three parishes. Acres, 16,207. Pop., 4,940. Houses, 938.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village, a parish, a sub-district, and a hundred"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Wargrave AP/CP       Wargrave Hundred       Wargrave SubD       Berkshire AncC
Place: Wargrave

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