In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Ruscombe like this:
RUSCOMBE, a parish in Wokingham district, Berks; on the Great Western railway, 1 mile E N E of Twyford r. station. Post-town, Twyford, Berkshire. Acres, 1, 249. Real property, £2, 229. Pop., 264. Houses, 55. Much of the property belongs to T.Garth, Esq. A quaint old house, destroyed about 1840, was the death-place of W. Penn. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £200.* Patron, the Bishop of Oxford. The church was restored in 1860.
Ruscombe through time
Ruscombe is now part of Wokingham district. Click here for graphs and data of how Wokingham has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Ruscombe itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Ruscombe, in Wokingham and Berkshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/2953
Date accessed: 24th April 2024
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