Description
Fawley, Great, a parish in Berks, near Icknield Street, 5 miles S from Wantage, and 7 S from Wantage Road station on the G.W.R. It includes the hamlets of Little Fawley and Whatcombe, and has a post office under Wantage; money order office, Brightwalton; telegraph office, Chaddleworth. Acreage, 2191; population, 170. The living is a donative in the diocese of Oxford; gross value, £100 with residence. A new church was built from designs by the late G. E. Street, and consecrated in 1866. There are remains of an ancient religious house at Whatcombe.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
