Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for YATTENDON

YATTENDON, a parish, with a village, in Bradfield district, Berks; 5½ miles W by S of Pangbourne r. station. It once had a weekly market, and now has a post-office under Newbury, and a fair on 13 Oct. Acres, 1,393. Real property, £2,389. Pop., 263. Houses, 59. The manor, with Y. house , belongs to T. Howard, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £413.* Patron, R. Watkins, Esq. The church is modern. There is a parochial school. The historian Carte resided here.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Yattendon CP/AP       Bradfield RegD/PLU       Berkshire AncC
Place: Yattendon

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