Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WOODHAY (West)

WOODHAY (West), a parish in Hungerford district, Berks; 3 miles S by W of Kintbury r. station, and 5 SE of Hungerford. Post town, Newbury. Acres, 1,407. Real property, £1,446. Pop., 130. Houses, 27. The manor, with the Manor House, belongs to the Rev. John Sloper. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £260. Patron, the Rev. J. Sloper. The church is good.


(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: West Woodhay AP/CP       Hungerford and Ramsbury RegD/PLU       Berkshire AncC
Place names: WEST WOODHAY     |     WOODHAY     |     WOODHAY WEST
Place: West Woodhay

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