Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ITCHINGSWELL, or ECCHINSWELL

ITCHINGSWELL, or ECCHINSWELL, a village and a parish in Kingsclere district, Hants. The village stands 2 miles WNW of Kingsclere, and 5 SE of Newbury r. station; and has a post office under Newbury. The parish comprises 2, 319 acres. Real property, £2, 494. Pop., 452. Houses, 95. The manor belongs to the Earl of Carnarvon. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Sydmonton, in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £100. * Patron, the Vicar of Kingsclere. The church is ancient. There is an Independent chapel.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Ecchinswell Ch/CP       Kingsclere RegD/PLU       Hampshire AncC
Place names: ECCHINSWELL     |     ITCHINGSWELL     |     ITCHINGSWELL OR ECCHINSWELL
Place: Ecchinswell

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