Description
Wasing, a parish in Berks, separated from Brimpton by the river Auburn, which is here crossed by a bridge of three arches, 2 miles S from Midgham station on the G.W.R., and 12 SW from Reading. Post town, Reading; money order and telegraph office, Woolhampton. Acreage, 690; population, 87. The manor with Wasing Place, a modern mansion of brick belongs to the Mount family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; value, £97 with residence. The church is a small building of rubble, consisting of chancel, nave, S transept, S porch, and a central turret.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
