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DIDCOT

"DIDCOT, (or Dudcott, or Dudcote), a parish in the hundred of Moreton, in the county of Berks, 5½ miles S. of Abingdon, 6 N.W. of Wallingford, and 9 from Oxford. It is a station on the Great Western railway. The village is small. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford, value £397, in the patronage of Brazenose College. The church is dedicated to All Saints, and is a plain building, with wooden tower. There are a day and Sunday school. The charities amount to £1 per annum. W. R. Baker, 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 and from A Vision of Britain Through Time.

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))

• Historic Churches of Berkshire

• British Listed Buildings Online

• Images of England

• Victoria County History of Berkshire

• Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland

• A Church Near You provides information about the present church.

• Parochial and non-parochial church registers

• Didcot Railway Centre and the Great Western Society

• Search the Berkshire FHS library and shop and the BRO for their holdings

• Royal Berkshire History

• Didcot was in the hundred of Moreton

• The Genuki Gazetteer lists neighbouring places and links to online maps

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

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