In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Compton like this:
COMPTON, a parish and a hundred in Berks. The parish bears also the name of Compton-Parva; is in Wantage district; and lies on Icknield-street, around Compton-Down, near Blewberry plain, 2 miles SE by E of East Ilsley, and 4½ WSW of Goring r. station. It has a post office under Newbury. ...
Acres, 3, 795. Real property, £4, 690. Pop., 590. Houses, 128. The property is divided among a few. A large Roman town is thought to have stood on the ground around the church; and a circular camp, formed by the ancient British, afterwards occupied by the Romans, and now called Perborough Castle, is on a neighbouring eminence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £270.* Patron, J. T. Wasey, Esq. The church is Norman and good. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.-The hundred contains also six other parishes. Acres, 16, 359. Pop., 2, 711. Houses, 538.
Compton through time
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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Compton in West Berkshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1421
Date accessed: 06th November 2024
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