Stanford in the Vale, Berkshire

Description
Stanford-in-the Vale, a village and a parish in Berks. The village stands in the White Horse Vale, 2 1/2 miles NNW of Challow station and 3 NE from Uffington Junction on the G.W.R., and 3 1/4 ESE of Faringdon. It was once a market-town, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Faringdon. The parish includes Goosey chapelry, which is noticed separately, and comprises 3895 acres; population of the civil parish, 894; of the ecclesiastical, with Goosey, 1054. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The manor belongs to the Richards family. Stanford Place is a chief residence, and the Manor House is an old mansion which was erected in 1618. There are stone pits in the neighbourhood, from which a soft stone suitable for road metal is quarried, and in which many fossils are found. The living is a vicarage, with Goosey annexed, in the diocese of Oxford; joint gross value, £376 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Westminster. The church is a building of stone in the Early English,. Decorated, and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and a good Early English western tower 80 feet high. It has some good stained windows and some interesting tombs and memorials. There are Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels.