Aldworth, Berkshire

Description
Aldworth or Allder, a village and a parish in Berks, in a high hilly tract, near Icknield Street, 3 miles WSW from Goring station on the G.W.R., 4 E by S from East Ilsley, and 2 E of Compton station on the Didcot, Newbury, and Southampton railway, with a post office under Reading; money order office, Goring; telegraph office, Compton. Acreage, 1806; population, 266. The manor belonged to the family of De la Beche, one of whom was tutor to the Black Prince ; and a farm called Beach was the site of their baronial castle. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net yearly value, £320 with residence. Patron, St John's College, Cambridge. The church contains eight tombs (one of which has two figures on it, and each of the others one) of the De la Beches, and all so interesting that Queen Elizabeth made a journey on horseback to see them. A yew tree, 27 feet in girth, is in the churchyard. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel in the parish.