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FARNBOROUGH

"FARNBOROUGH, a parish in the hundred of Compton, county Berks, 5 miles S.E. of Wantage, its post town, and 9 N. of Newbury. It is situated on the Berkshire Downs. The greater portion of the parish is in downs and sheepwalks. The surface is hilly, and the springs lie at a great depth. The village is small, and wholly agricultural. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Oxford, value £291. The church is an ancient Norman structure, dedicated to All Saints, and has monuments of the Prices, and a handsome font. There is a free school for both sexes. The Bramshill hounds meet here."

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

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