Stratfield Mortimer, Berkshire Genealogy

England   Berkshire

Parish History
STRATFIELD-MORTIMER (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Bradfield, partly in the hundred of Holdshott, Basingstoke and N. divisions of the county of Southampton, but chiefly in the hundred of Theale, county of Berks, 8 miles (S. W. by S.) from Reading; containing, with the tythings of Wokefield and Mortimer West-End, 1169 inhabitants, of whom 723 are in the tything of Stratfield-Mortimer. The parish comprises 5975a. 1r. 16p., of which about 800 acres consist of fir-plantations and commons. A fair for cattle is held on the 7th of November. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £8. 19. 4½.; net income, £176; patrons and impropriators, the Provost and Fellows of Eton College. The great tithes have been commuted for £941, and the vicarial for £244; the impropriate glebe comprises 83 acres, and the vicarial 32. The Independents have a place of worship. Here are some remains of a Roman amphitheatre, attached to the station of Silchester.From: 'Stradbrook - Stratford, Water', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 238-244. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51312 Date accessed: 11 August 2011.

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Probate records
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