Kingston Bagpuize, Berkshire

Description
Kingston Bagpuize, a parish in Berks, in the Vale of White Horse, 9 miles from Oxford, 6 from Abingdon, and 4 1/4 from Wantage Road stations on the G.W.R. It has a post and telegraph office under Abingdon; money order office, Longworth. Acreage, 1109; population, 208. The manor was given by William the Conqueror to Sir Richard Bagpuize, and with Kingston House, a mansion of red brick said to have been designed by Inigo Jones, belongs to the Blandy-Jenkins family. The kennels of the old Berks hunt are here. At Newbridge, on the Thames, the Parliamentary army suffered a repulse in 1644. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £250 with residence. Patron, St John's College, Oxford. The church, a small, plain building of stone in the Italian style, was rebuilt in 1799. It has an apsidal chancel, and was renovated and repaired in 1882-83. There is a school endowment worth about £60. South Moor is an adjacent hamlet.