Greenham, Berkshire

Description
Greenham, a township and an ecclesiastical parish formerly partly in Thatcham parish and now partly in the borough of Newbury, Berks. The township is situated on the S border of the county, between the river Kennet and the Kennet Canal on the N, and the Enborne stream on the S, 1 1/2 mile SE of Newbury, and is practically, for trade and industry, suburban to Newbury, at which there is a station on the G.W.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Newbury. Acreage of township, 2529 of land and 35 of water; population, 2315; of the ecclesiastical parish, 660. The manor was given by Maud, Countess of Clare, in the time of Henry VI. to the Knights Hospitallers, and it had a preceptory of these knights. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £98 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Oxford. The church is a modern building of stone in the Early English style, which was built in 1875 and enlarged in 1888. There are Baptist and Primitive Methodist chapels.