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"CHOLSEY, a respectable village in a parish of its name, in the hundred of Reading, is about two miles from Wallingford. Before the reformation this parish contained the largest and most compact farm in England; the rent amounting even in those early days to £1000 annually. The great barn in which the abbot of Reading deposited his tithes is still to be seen. The living of this parish is a vicarage, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor... The number of inhabitants, in 1821, was 975." [From Pigot & Co's Directory of Berkshire, 1830].
Other descriptions can be found from other periods in various trade directories covering Berkshire from the early 19th century onwards, the National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) 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))
Further information about some of the churches can be found below:
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Cholsey to another place.
- Cholsey was in the hundred of Reading
- Search the Berkshire FHS library and shop and the BRO for their holdings
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SU590855 (Lat/Lon: 51.565298, -1.150207), Cholsey which are provided by:
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- 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.
Cholsey was in the Wallingford Union. For more information, see Poorhouses.