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"DIDCOT, (or Dudcott, or Dudcote), a parish in the hundred of Moreton, in the county of Berks, 5½ miles S. of Abingdon, 6 N.W. of Wallingford, and 9 from Oxford. It is a station on the Great Western railway. The village is small. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford, value £397, in the patronage of Brazenose College. The church is dedicated to All Saints, and is a plain building, with wooden tower. There are a day and Sunday school. The charities amount to £1 per annum. W. R. Baker, Esq., is lord of the manor.
From The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland(1868). Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003.
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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- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Didcot to another place.
- Didcot was in the hundred of Moreton
- Search the Berkshire FHS library and shop and the BRO for their holdings
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SU530905 (Lat/Lon: 51.610845, -1.236007), Didcot which are provided by:
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- 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)
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- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
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Didcot was in the Wallingford Union. For more information, see Poorhouses.