Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BARKHAM

BARKHAM, a parish in Wokingham district, Berks; on a small affluent of the Thames, 2½ miles SW of Wokingham r. station. Post Town, Wokingham. Acres, 1,358. Real property, £1,846. Pop., 280. Houses, 55. The property is not much divided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £350. Patron, Rev. A. Roberts. The church was rebuilt in 1862.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Barkham AP/CP       Wokingham RegD/PLU       Berkshire AncC
Place: Barkham

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