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COMPTON

"COMPTON, (or Compton Parva), a parish in the hundred of Compton, in the county of Berks, 2 miles E. of East Ilsley, and 6 from the Goring station of the Great Western railway. The village lies in a hollow or valley under Compton Down, hence its name. The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Oxford, of the value of £270, in the patronage of J. P. Wasey, Esq. The church is an ancient Norman structure. The Primitive Methodists have a chapel.

From The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003

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