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Berkshire

Berkshire Towns & Parishes

Nearby places

CHOLSEY

"CHOLSEY, a respectable village in a parish of its name, in the hundred of Reading, is about two miles from Wallingford. Before the reformation this parish contained the largest and most compact farm in England; the rent amounting even in those early days to £1000 annually. The great barn in which the abbot of Reading deposited his tithes is still to be seen. The living of this parish is a vicarage, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor... The number of inhabitants, in 1821, was 975." [From Pigot & Co's Directory of Berkshire, 1830]

Cemeteries Church History Church Records Civil Registration

Gazetteers History Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

Cemeteries

• Cholsey St. Mary - Monumental Inscriptions - Record of Inscriptions up to the end of the 19th century on tombstones in Cholsey Church Yard and also inside the Church. Recorded by Chas J Girling and M Goodey 1934. Typed and indexed for Oxfordshire Family History Society July 1997

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Church History

• The Web site of St. Mary's Church, Cholsey, contains a brief history of the church.

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Church Records

• Cholsey - Church Records - links and information.

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Civil Registration

• Cholsey is within the Wallingford Registration District.

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Gazetteers

• Cholsey in The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868), transcribed by Colin Hinson

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History

• From Lyson's Magna Britannia - Berkshire (1806)

  CHOLSEY, in the hundred of Reading, lies about three miles to the south-west of Wallingford. King Ethelred founded a monastery at this place in 986, to make atonement for the murder of his brother Edward the Martyr. It is supposed to have been destroyed by the Danes in 1006, when we are told the burnt Reading, Ceolsey, and other places in Berkshire. [...] When the Survey of Doomsday was taken, the church of Cholsey belonged to the abbey of Mount St. Michael, in Normandy; it was afterwards given to Reading abbey. Lord Kensington is the present impropriator of the great tythes. The Lord Chancellor is patron of the vicarage, which is in the deanery of Wallingford."

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• Cholsey Parish was part of Wallingford Poor Law Union.

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