Chieveley, Berkshire

Description
Chieveley, a village, a township, and a parish in Berks. The village stands 4 1/2 miles N by E from Newbury, and 2 NE from Hermitage station on the G.W.R. It has a post and money order office under Newbury; telegraph office, Hermitage station. The parish includes the chapelries of Oare and Winterbourne, and the hamlets of Curridge and Snelsmore. Acreage of Chieveley township, 5328 ; population, 1020 ; acreage of Winterbourne, 2112 ; population, 270. The living is a vicarage, united with the perpetual curacies of Curridge, Oare, and Winterbourne, in the diocese of Oxford ; gross yearly value, £1235 with residence. The church is a building of rubble in the Early English style. There are also Baptist, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan chapels. The church at Oare is a plain building of stone in the Perpendicular style, and that at Winterbourne a building of flint and stone in the Early English style, with an embattled western tower of brick.