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From Kelly's Directory of Berkshire (1915), transcribed by Robert Monk ©2012.
Other descriptions can be found from other periods in various trade directories covering Berkshire from the early 19th century onwards from Berkshire FHS (members only) and from A Vision of Britain Through Time.
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In addition to those listed on the Berkshire home page, see the Research Wiki from Family Search (the Church of Latter-day Saints (Genealogical Society of Utah))
St Mary, Twyford, Church of England |
URC (was Congregational Church), Twyford, United Reform Church |
St Mary, Twyford, Church of England |
URC (was Congregational Church), Twyford, United Reform Church |
Twyford, Wesleyan Methodist |
St Thomas More, Twyford, Roman Catholic |
Further information about some of the churches can be found below:
- Congregational Chapel: URC of Twyford. For early history, see The History of the Congregational Churches in the Berks, etc
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Twyford to another place.
Twyford was in the hundred of Charlton, but note:Twyford was a chapelry of Hurst, with first a chapel built under the will of Edward Polehampton, who died in 1721. Twyford St Mary parish was not formed until 1848 after the church was constructed the year before. Both Hurst and Twyford (effectively a small northern piece of the original ancient parish if Hurst) essentially formed part of Charlton Hundred from pre-Norman times onwards. In 1832 the parish of Hurst comprised four Liberties (Liberty = a manor or group of manors, or other area that lies outside the jurisdiction of the sheriff (a county official)). Whistley was in Charlton Hundred, Broad Hinton (then in Wiltshire) but later (in 1844) was also annexed to Charlton Hundred. The Liberties of Newland and Winnersh are in the south of the parish. Hurst parish was just short of 7,000 acres in extent and about half of this area was in the Charlton Hundred. Whistley Liberty was almost 2,000 acres with Hurst Church and village at its centre. By the 14th Century, Charlton Hundred was in the possession of the King, and Sonning Hundred (not in existence as such at Domesday) had the Bishop of Salisbury as its Lord.
- See the Bibliography and search the BRO's holdings
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SU790759 (Lat/Lon: 51.476554, -0.863872), Twyford which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
Twyford was in the Wokingham Union. For more information, see Poorhouses.