Description
Beedon or Beedon Hill a village and a parish in Berks, 3 miles NW from Hampstead Norris station on the G.W.R. The parish includes the tithing of Stanmore, and has a post office of the name of Beedon Hill, under Newbury; money order and telegraph office, East Ilsley. Acreage, 2012 ; population, 272. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford ; gross yearly value, £190 with residence, in the gift of Lord Wantage. The church, a building of flint and rubble erected in 1220, was restored in 1882. Some interesting antiquities of the Romano-British period were discovered in this parish in 1888.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
