Compton, Berkshire

Description
Compton, a village and a parish in Berkshire. It bears also the name of Compton Parva, has a station on the G.W.R., and lies on Icknield Street, around Compton Down, near Blewberry Plain, 2 miles SE by E of East Ilsley. It has a post and telegraph office under Newbury ; money order office, East Ilsley. Acreage, 3863 ; population, 629. A large Roman town is thought to have stood on the ground around the church, and a circular camp, formed by the ancient British, afterwards occupied by the Romans, and now called Perborough Castle, is on a neighbouring eminence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net yearly value, £177 with residence, in the gift of Lord Wantage. The church is Norman and good. There are Baptist and Primitive Methodist chapels. Racehorses are trained here on the Downs.