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"TILEHURST, a parish in the hundred of Reading, county Berks, 3 miles W. of Reading, its post town. The village is situated between the rivers Thames and Kennet. It formerly included the hamlet of Theale, which has been constituted a separate parish by Act of Parliament. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, is an ancient structure with a tower and seven bells. The interior contains a monument of Sir Peter Vanlore, who died in 1627, and some ancient brasses. The parochial charities produce about £37 per annum, besides almshouses for six widows of sixty years and upwards, belonging to the parishes of Burghfield and Tilehurst. There is a National school for both sexes. The Independents have a chapel. Calcot House is the principal residence. Colonel Blagrave 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, 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))
| URC (was Congregational Church), Tilehurst, United Reform Church |
Further information about some of the churches can be found below:
- Church of England: Tilehurst St Michael and this description from Berkshire FHS
- Roman Catholic:
- St Joseph's from Berkshire FHS
- English Martyrs was founded in 1926
- Tilehurst Free Church (Baptist) (now Reading Community Church) from Berkshire FHS
- Congregational Chapel: URC, Armour Rd. For early history (and picture), see The History of the Congregational Churches in the Berks, etc
- Historic Churches of Berkshire
- British Listed Buildings Online
- Images of England
- Victoria County History of Berkshire
- Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Tilehurst to another place.
- Tilehurst was in the hundred of Reading
- Tilehurst Poor's Land Charity
- See the Bibliography and search the BRO's holdings
- Royal Berkshire History
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SU669733 (Lat/Lon: 51.454737, -1.038562), Tilehurst 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.
Tilehurst was in the Bradfield Union. For more information, see Poorhouses. The Tilehurst Workhouse which was in existence in 1767 was closed and sold about 1843.