Tilehurst, Berkshire

Description
Tilehurst, a village and a parish on the river Kennet, in Berks. The village stands 2 1/4 miles WSW of Reading station on the G.W.R., and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Reading. The parish includes Thrale village and ecclesiastical parish, which is noticed separately, Calcot hamlet, and North Street tithing. Acreage, 4930; population of the civil parish, 3184; of the ecclesiastical parishes of Tilehurst, St George, 2243; and of St Michael, 2275. The manor, with Calcot House, belongs to the Blagrave family. The living is a rectory and vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net value £712. Patron, Magdalen College, Oxford. The church was almost entirely rebuilt in 1856, and it has a fine spire. There are Congregational, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan chapels. There are almshouses for six poor women. The ecclesiastical parish of Tilehurst St George was formed in 1882 out of the parish of St Michael, and in 1887 was incorporated in the borough of Reading. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £141 with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford. The church is a building in the Early English style.