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"LITTLE WITTENHAM, a parish in the hundred of Ock, county Berks, 4 miles N.W. of Wallingford. The village is situated on the Thames, near Sinodun Hill, which is surrounded by an ancient camp, where many Roman antiquities have been found. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford, value £400. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, contains brasses, the earliest being that of a priest, 1433, and monuments to the Kidwelly and Dunche families. There are day and Sunday schools. G. H. Cherry, 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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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 Little Wittenham to another place.
- Little Wittenham was in the hundred of Ock
- Literacy survey of Little Wittenham in 1815 - the Berkshire Echo, Vol 17, Autumn 2001, page 2.
- See the Bibliography and search the BRO's holdings.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SU565933 (Lat/Lon: 51.635678, -1.185017), Little Wittenham which are provided by:
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- 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.
Little Wittenham was in the Wallingford Union. For more information, see Poorhouses.