East Garston, Berkshire

Description
Garston, East, a parish in Berks, on the river Lambourn, 21 miles ESE of Lambourn, and 6 N by E of Hungerford station on the G.W.R. It has a post office under Lambourn (R.S.O.); money order office, Great Shefford; telegraph office, Lambourn. Acreage, 4409; population, 436. The manor belonged to John of Gaunt in right of his wife, and was held on the tenure of furnishing a plate-clad knight to serve the king for forty days, whenever he should he in Kidwelly. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net yearly value, £500. Patrons, Christ Church, Oxford. The church, dedicated to All Saints, is a good and handsome edifice of flint and stone in the Early Norman style, with a square tower. The windows are all filled with beautiful stained glass. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.