Shottesbrook, Berkshire

Description
Shottesbrooke, a parish in Berks, 4 miles E by N of Twyford station on the G.W.R., and 4 1/2 SW by W of Maidenhead. Post town, Maidenhead; money order and telegraph office, White Waltham. Acreage, 1395; population of the civil parish, 184; of the ecclesiastical, with White Waltham, 1043. The manor belonged in the time of William Rufus to Alward the goldsmith, and belongs now to the Smith family. Shottesbrooke Park is a large country mansion, standing in a park of 300 acres. A college for a warden and five priests was founded here in 1337 by Sir W. Tressell. The living is a rectory, united with White Waltham, in the diocese of Oxford; joint net value, £319. The church is a beautiful cruciform building of flint and stone, in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, transept, S porch, and a central tower, surmounted by an octagonal spire.