Description
Hurst, a parish in Berks, consisting of portions of the liberties of Broad Hinton and Whistley-in-Hurst. Hurst church is about 2 miles S from Twyford station on the G.W.R., and 6 E from Reading. Population of the ecclesiastical parish, 1333. TWYFORD is noticed separately. Post, money order, and telegraph office, Twyford (R.S.O.) The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net yearly value, £298 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Oxford. The church is a building of stone in the Transitional and later styles, and contains an elaborately carved screen, a carved oak pulpit, two brasses of the 16th and 17th centuries, and a splendid monument to the widow of Sir Henry Saville of the 17th century. BEARWOOD is a separate ecclesiastical parish, and is noticed under that heading. The charities, which are administered under a scheme of the Charity Commissioners, amount to about £258 a year.
Villages, Hamlets, &c.
Newland, a liberty in Hurst parish, Berks, 3 1/2 miles W by S of Wokingham.
