A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
THEALE, a chapelry and a hundred in Berks. The chapelry is in Tilehurst parish; lies on the Reading and Trowbridge railway and on the river Kennet, 5 miles W by S of Reading; contains a village, consisting of one street; and has a post-office‡ under Reading, and a r. station with telegraph. The statistics are returned with Tilehurst. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £774. Patron, Magdalen College, Oxford. The church was built in 1842, and has a pinnacled tower. There are an Independent chapel and a national school.-The hundred contains 12 parishes and 2 parts. Acres, 23,913. Pop., 6,108. Houses, 1,221.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a chapelry and a hundred" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Berkshire AncC |
| Place: | Theale |
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