GENUKI: Stanford in the Vale, Berkshire

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"STANFORD IN THE VALE, a parish in the hundreds of Ock and Ganfield, county Berks, 4 miles S.E. of Faringdon, its post town, and 2 from the Faringdon-road station, on the Great Western railway. The village is situated in the vale of White Horse, on the river Ock, and is chiefly agricultural. Stanford includes the tything of Goosey-Green, and was formerly a market town. Stone of inferior quality is quarried, and is chiefly used in repairing the roads. The living is a vicarage,* with the curacy of Goosey annexed, in the diocese of Oxford, value £337, in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster. The church, dedicated to St. Dennis, was erected about 1280. It was partially restored in 1851. The parochial charities produce about £48 per annum, of which £7 go to a school. There is a National school for both sexes. The Independents have a chapel. Pryse Pryse Loveden, Esq., M.P., of Buscot Park, is lord of the manor."

"GOOSEY, a chapelry in the parish of Stanford-in-the-Vale, hundred of Ock, county Berks, 4 miles N.W. of Wantage. Faringdon is its post town. It is situated on the river Ock, and the Great Western railway passes in the vicinity. The living is a curacy annexed to the vicarage* of Stanford-in-the-Vale, in the diocese of Oxford. The church is dedicated to All Saints."

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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Archives & Libraries

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))

Cemeteries

**Anglican**
St Denys, Stanford in the Vale, Church of England

Churches

**Anglican**
All Saints, Goosey, Church of England
St Denys, Stanford in the Vale, Church of England

**Congregational / Independent**
United Reform Church, Stanford in the Vale, Congregational

**Methodist**
Goosey, Primitive Methodist
Methodist Chapel, Stanford in the Vale, Primitive Methodist

**Other**
Stanford in the Vale, Plymouth Brethren

Church History

Further information about some of the churches can be found below:

Church of England: Goosey All Saints from Berkshire FHS

Congregational Chapel: URC: Founded 1831. For early history, see The History of the Congregational Churches in the Berks, etc

Methodists: Primitive Methodist Church

Plymouth Brethren

Historic Churches of Berkshire

British Listed Buildings Online

Images of England

Victoria County History of Berkshire

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland

Church Records

Parochial and non-parochial church registers

Description & Travel

You can see pictures of Stanford in the Vale which are provided by:

Gazetteers

Ask for a calculation of the distance from Stanford in the Vale to another place.

Historical Geography

Stanford in the Vale was in the the hundreds of Ock and Ganfield

History

Outline history

School managers' minutes 1872-1954 are held by the BRO (D/P118)

Stanford-in-the-Vale : a Parish Record (in several parts) by Violet Mary Howse, 1962, available from Reading Central Library

A Berkshire village [Stanford-in-the-Vale] its History and Antiquities by Lewin George Maine, 1866, free from Google Books

See the Bibliography and search the BRO's holdings

Royal Berkshire History

Maps

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SU344934 (Lat/Lon: 51.638359, -1.504317), Stanford in the Vale 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.)

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Poor Houses, Poor Law

Stanford in the Vale was in the Faringdon Union. For more information, see Poorhouses.