Waltham St Lawrence, Berkshire

Description
Waltham St Lawrence, a parish, with a village, in Berks, 3 miles ENE of Twyford station on the G.W.R., and 6 SW from Maidenhead. It has a post office under Twyford; telegraph office, Shurlock Row. Acreage, 3640; population, 851. There is a parish council of seven members. It formerly had a fair on 10 Aug. A Roman camp is at Castle Acre, and Roman coins, urns, and other relics have there been found. Billingbear Park is a fine Elizabethan mansion of red brick standing in a well timbered park of about 400 acres. Southlake or Shurlock Street is a division of the parish about 1 1/4 mile SW of the village. It has a chapel of ease to the parish church. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £345. Patron, Lord Braybrooke. The church, a building of brick and flint covered with stucco in the Norman and Gothic styles, contains some good stained windows and some ancient and interesting tombs and monuments. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.