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"FINCHAMPSTEAD, a parish in the hundred of Charlton, county Berks, 4 miles S.W. of Wokingham, its post town, and 9 S.E. of Reading. The Wellington College station on the South-Eastern line is about 2½ miles S.E. of the village. The river Blackwater bounds the parish on the S., which includes the hamlet of West-court. The village is small, and wholly agricultural, but in the vicinity are several handsome residences. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Oxford, value £500. The church is an ancient Norman structure with square tower. It is dedicated to St. James, and contains some, monuments of old families. There are several charities arising from land and other property. There is a Baptist chapel and a free school. A fair is held on 23rd April for cattle at West-court."
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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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:
- St James Finchampstead and St Mary and St John California. The church website has (in 2017) a virtual tour of the church, including a panoramic view from the top of the tower.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Finchampstead to another place.
- Finchampstead was in the hundred of Charlton
- See the Bibliography and search the BRO's holdings
- Reading Central Library hold copies of:
- Chronicles of Finchampstead, Willam Lyon, 1895
- The monumental inscriptions of Finchampstead, Berkshire : a catalogue of the monumental inscriptions in the church and churchyard of St James with additional information from W. Lyons "Chronicles of Finchampstead" and the War Memorial situated a mile from Church / by O. K. Butchart, Church Archivist.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SU790638 (Lat/Lon: 51.367777, -0.866566), Finchampstead 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.
Finchampstead was in the Wokingham Union. For more information, see Poorhouses.