Description
Ilsley, West, a village and a parish in Berks. The village stands in a deep valley, under the Downs, near Ictdeton Street, 1 1/2 mile NW of East Ilsley, 4 miles E from Compton station on the G.W.R., and has a post office under Newbury; money order and telegraph office, East Ilsley. The parish comprises 3037 acres; population, 316. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net value, about £150 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Canons of Windsor. The church is an ancient building of flint in the Early English style, and has a bell-turret. Antonio de Dominis, archbishop of Spalatro, and Goodman, bishop of Gloucester, were rectors, and the latter was visited here in 1644 by Charles I. on his way to Donnington Castle.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
