Description
Didcot or Dudcote, a village and a parish in Berks, with an important junction station on the G.W.R., 6 miles W from Wallingford. There is a post, money order, and telegraph office (R.S.O.) Acreage, 1120 ; population, 337. There is a corn exchange in which a market is held on Tuesday. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; gross yearly value, £399 with residence. Patron, Brasenose College, Oxford. The church is a building of stone in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, and the churchyard contains a picturesque stone cross and some fine yew trees. For Didcot New Town see HAGBOURNE.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
