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SULHAMPSTEAD ABBOTS (aka Sulhapstead Abbotts)

"SULHAMPSTEAD ABBOTS, a parish in the hundred of Reading, county Berks, 6 miles S.W. of Reading, its post town. The village is situated near a branch of the Great Western railway, and is intersected by the Avon and Kennet navigation. The parish includes the hamlet of Graizeley. The living is a rectory annexed to that of Sulhampstead Banister, in the diocese of Oxford, value £600, in the patronage of Queen's College, Oxford. The church is dedicated to St. Mary or St. Bartholomew. The parochial charities produce about £25, of which £17 go to a Sunday-school. Sulhampstead House is the principal residence."

"GRAIZELEY, (or Grasley or Grazeley) a tything in the parish of Sulhampstead-Abbots, hundred of Reading, county Berks, 5 miles S.W. of Reading.

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))

• Church of England: Grazeley Holy Trinity is closed

• Congregational chapel - started 1850, building erected 1881, listed still in Kelly's directory of 1915, seems closed.  No records at the BRO.  For early history, 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

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

• Parochial and non-parochial church registers

• Sulhamstead House was the manor house of Sulhamstead Abbots and is now the Thames Valley Police's training centre and museum, more details from Wikipedia

• See the Bibliography and search the BRO's holdings

• Royal Berkshire History

• Sulhampstead Abbots was in the hundred of Reading

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

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

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