Arborfield, Berkshire

Description
Arborfield, a village and a parish in Berkshire, on the river Loddon, 4 miles W of Wokingham stations on the L. & S.W.R. and S.E.R. Arborfield Cross, about 1 mile to the SE, has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Reading. Acres in the parish, 1469; population, 248. The manor formerly belonged to the Bullocks, one of whom was "Hugh of the Brazen Band," and the old manor-house, called in “Our Village" the "Old House at Aberleigh," was the deathplace, in 1730, of Edward Standen, who is alluded to in the ballad of “Molly Mogg of the Rose." The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; gross yearly value, £302. The old parish church was built in 1256, and its ruins are still to be seen in the grounds of Arborfield Hall. The present church was built in 1863, and is in the Middle Pointed style. Arborfield Hall and Arborfield Grange are chief residences.