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"GOOSEY, a chapelry in the parish of Stanford-in-the-Vale, hundred of Ock, county Berks, 4 miles N.W. of Wantage. Faringdon is its post town. It is situated on the river Ock, and the Great Western railway passes in the vicinity. The living is a curacy annexed to the vicarage* of Stanford-in-the-Vale, in the diocese of Oxford. The church is dedicated to All Saints."
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 (members only) 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))
United Reform Church, Stanford in the Vale, Congregational |
Further information about some of the churches can be found below:
- Congregational Chapel: URC: Founded 1831. For early history, see The History of the Congregational Churches in the Berks, etc
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Stanford in the Vale to another place.
- Stanford in the Vale was in the the hundreds of Ock and Ganfield
- School managers' minutes 1872-1954 are held by the BRO (D/P118)
- Stanford-in-the-Vale : a Parish Record (in several parts) by Violet Mary Howse, 1962, available from Reading Central Library
- A Berkshire village [Stanford-in-the-Vale] its History and Antiquities by Lewin George Maine, 1866, free from Google Books
- See the Bibliography and search the BRO's holdings
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SU344934 (Lat/Lon: 51.638359, -1.504317), Stanford in the Vale 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.
Stanford in the Vale was in the Faringdon Union. For more information, see Poorhouses.