Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BEARWOOD

BEARWOOD, a chapelry in Hurst and Wokingham parishes, Berks; 2¼. miles S of Wokingham r. station. It was constituted in 1846; and its Post Town is Wokingham. Pop., 814. Houses, 169. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £180.* Patron, J. Walter, Esq. The church is handsome.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Hurst Ch/CP       Wokingham Ch/CP       Berkshire AncC
Place: Bearwood

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