Beenham, or Beenham Vallence, a parish in Berks, adjacent to the Kennet and Avon Canal, 1 1/2 mile N of Aldermaston station on the G.W.R., and 8 1/2 miles WSW of Reading. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office, of the name of Beenham, under Reading. Acreage, 1817; population, 517. Beenham House and Beenham Lodge are cliief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; gross value, £236 with residence. The church, a building of flint and stone in the Early English style, was chiefly rebuilt in 1859. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel. Stackhouse, the author of the History of the Bible, was vicar here.
