In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Blewbury like this:
BLEWBERRY, a village in Wantage district, and a parish in Wantage and Wallingford districts, Berks. The village stands near the Ridgeway and Icknield-street; 2 ½ miles WSW of Wallingford Road r. station, and 4 NE by N of East Ilsley; and it has a post office under Wallingford, and a fair on the Thursday after 29 Sept. ...
Pop., 639. Houses, 152. The parish includes also the hamlet of Upton with Nottingham-Fee liberty, and the liberty of Aston-Upthorpe. Acres, 6,814. Real property, £8,071. Pop., 1,114. Houses, 251. The property is divided among a few. The ancient manor-house was engirt by moat and earthen rampart. Blewberry Hill has barrows and an ancient camp. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; and till 1866 was united with Upton and Acton-Upthorpe. Value, £161.* Patron, the Bishop of Oxford. The church is old but good. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a free school for 30 boys and 30 girls, and a large amount of charities.
Blewbury through time
Blewbury is now part of Vale of White Horse district. Click here for graphs and data of how Vale of White Horse has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Blewbury itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Blewbury, in Vale of White Horse and Berkshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/6243
Date accessed: 19th April 2024
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