Hatford, Berkshire

Description
Hatford, a village and a parish in Berks, near the river Ock, 3 1/2 miles E by S from Faringdon town and station on the G.W.R. Post town, Faringdon; money order and telegraph office, Stanford-in-the-Vale. Acreage, 993; population, 110. The manor belonged to the poet Chaucer, passed through marriage with the poet's daughter to the Duke of Suffolk, went afterwards to the Crown, and belongs now to the Pusey family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; gross value, £242 with residence. The church of St George is ancient and good, has a Norman doorway, and contains a very ancient tomb, traditionally said to be that of Thos. Chaucer, the son of the poet The church of the Holy Trinity is a building of stone in the Early English style; it was erected in 1874.