Description
Midgham, formerly a chapelry attached ecclesiastically to the parish of Thatcham, separated in 1857, and made into an independent parish, Berks, on the river Kennet, the Kennet and Avon Canal, and the G.W.R., with a station of the same name, 1 1/2 mile N and 6 miles E of Newbury. Post town, Reading; money order and telegraph office, Woolhampton. Population, 287. The manor with Midgham House belong to the Greene family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £125 with residence. The church, erected in 1869, is a building of flint in the Decorated style.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
