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SOUTH MORETON

"SOUTH MORETON, a parish in the hundred of Moreton and borough of Wallingford, county Berks, 3 miles S.W. of Wallingford. The Great Western railway intersects the parish, which is watered by a small stream falling into the Thames at Wallingford. The surface is generally level and the land principally arable. The village is small and chiefly agricultural, except a few persons engaged in the paper mill. The tithes were commuted for land and money payments under an Enclosure Act in 1818. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Oxford, value £199, in the patronage of Magdalen Hall, Oxford. The church, dedicated to St. John, is an ancient structure.

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

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