Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CHALLOW (West)

CHALLOW (West), a chapelry in Letcombe-Regis parish, Berks; on the Berks and Wilts canal, 2 miles W by N of Wantage, and 1½ S of Faringdon Road r. station. Post Town, Wantage. Real property, £1,485. Pop., 192. Houses, 43. The property is divided among a few. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to East Challow, in the diocese of Oxford. The church is good.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Letcombe Regis AP/CP       Berkshire AncC
Place names: CHALLOW     |     CHALLOW WEST     |     WEST CHALLOW
Place: West Challow

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