Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for UPTON

UPTON, a chapelry in Blewberry parish, Berks; 2½ miles SSW of Didcot r. station, and 6 WSW of Wallingford. Post town, Wallingford. Acres, 1,378. Real property, £1,985. Pop., 306. Houses, 63. The property is chiefly divided among five. The living is a vicarage, united with Aston-Upthorpe, in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £88. Patron, the Bishop of O. The church is Norman, but was recently about to be superseded by a new edifice. There are a Wesleyan chapel, and a national school.


(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: Blewbury CP/AP       Upton CP/Ch       Berkshire AncC
Place: Upton

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