Description
Woolhampton, a parish, with a pleasant village, in Berks, on the G.W.R., on which it has a station called Midgham, 7 miles E of Newbury. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office (R.S.O.) Acreage, 719; population, 452. The manor belongs to the Burn Blyth family. Woolhampton House is a fine mansion of red brick standing in a well-timbered park of about 150 acres. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £152 with residence. The church, rebuilt in 1861, is a building of flint in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel,nave, transepts, S porch, and a small western turret with spire. There are Congregational and Roman Catholic chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
