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Shrivenham in Berks County England History and GeographySHRIVENHAM, a parish (formerly a market town) in the hundred of SHRIVENHAM, county of BERKS, 5 miles (S.W. by S.) from Great Farringdon, containing, with the chapelries of Longcot and Watchfield, the hamlet of Fernham, and the tythings of Beckett and Bourton, 1879 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Berks, and diocese of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £20, and in the patronage of the Crown. The church, dedicated to St.Andrew, is a large structure, principally in the Norman style, with a tower rising from the centre. A chantry was founded here, in 1336, by John de Burghton and Agnes his wife. William de Valence obtained a charter, in 1257, for a weekly market on Thursday, and an annual fair on the festival of St. Mary Magdalene, which were confirmed by another charter in 1383, but both have been long disused. The Wilts and Berks canal passes through the parish. Thomas Stratton, in 1703, gave a rent-charge of £4, for which sum ten boys are educated in a school-house purchased by the parish, with aid from private subscriptions. In 1788, the materials of an old chapel at Watchfield were sold, and the produce vested in the purchase of £260. 4. 1. three per cents., the dividends arising from which are applied for teaching six poor children, and six others are instructed by a schoolmistress, for the annual proceeds of £100, left by Richard Smith, in 1818. Here are eight almshouses, founded in 1642, by Sir Henry Martin, with an endowment of about £40 per annum. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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