Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for KIDMORE-END

KIDMORE-END, a village in Caversham parish, and a chapelry partly also in Shiplake and Sonning parishes, Oxford. The village stands 4 miles N of Reading r. station, and has a post office under Henley-on-Thames. The chapelry was constituted in 1853. Pop. in 1861, 605. Houses, 128. Pop. of the Caversham portion, 418; of the Sonning portion, 148. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £78. Patron, the Bishop of Oxford. The church was built in 1852.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Shiplake AP/CP       Oxfordshire AncC
Place: Kidmore End

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