Description
Compton-Beauchamp, a parish in Berks, on the Ridge Way, adjacent to the Berks and Wilts Canal and the G.W.R., 4 miles ESE of Shrivenham station, and 6 1/2 S by W of Faringdon. It includes the hamlet of Knighton, and its post town is Shrivenham (R.S.O.), which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1812 ; population, 122. The manor belonged to the Beauchamps. Compton House is a moated, building, with quaint old terraced garden. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net yearly value, £230 with residence. Patron, Earl Craven. The church is ancient, picturesque, and good, and contains a curious ancient stone seat.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
