Theale, Berkshire

Description
Theale-with-North Street, a village and a parish in Berks. The village, which forms one street along the road from Reading to Newbury, is 5 miles W from Reading. It has a station on the G.W.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Reading. The parish obtained ecclesiastical independence in 1854, and is bounded on the S by the river Kennet. Population, 909. It was made a separate civil parish in 1895, and has a parish council consisting of seven members. The manor, with most of the land, belongs to the Blagrave family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £512 with residence, in the gift of Magdalen College, Oxford. The church, erected in 1832, is a building of freestone in the Early English style. There are Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels.