CRUX-EASTON
"CRUX-EASTON, a parish in the lower half of the hundred of Pastrow, in the
county of Hants, 5 miles S.W. of Kingsclere, and 6½ S. of Newbury, its post
town and railway station. It is a very small place, and is mentioned in
Domesday Survey as Croch Estone. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of
Winchester, value £180, in the patronage of the Rev. James Bagge. The
church is dedicated to St. Michael. There is a National school. The
celebrated grotto constructed by the nine sisters of the Lisle family, and
celebrated by Pope, has been suffered to fall to ruins."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of
Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
[Last updated: 4th August 2003 - Brian Pears]
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