Winkfield, Berkshire

Description
Winkfield, a village and a very large parish in Berkshire. The village stands 3 1/2 miles N of Ascot station on the L. & S.W.R., and 5 SW of Windsor, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Windsor. The parish, which is more than 8 miles across, contains Ascot Side, Cranbourne, Winkfield Row, and a portion of Bracknell and Braywood; it comprises 10,278 acres; population of the civil parish, 4005; of the ecclesiastical parish of Winkfield St Mary, 999. The manor belongs to the Ferard family. There are many fine country seats in this parish, among which are Ascot Place, a mansion standing in a park of 300 acres; New Lodge, a spacious mansion of stone in the Tudor style; Foliejon Park, a mansion standing in a fine undulating park of about 550 acres; Tower Hill, Grove Lodge, Somerton Lode, and Brock Hill House. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; gross value, £428 with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford. The church is an edifice of stone and conglomerate, the E end of which is faced with flint in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, S porch, organ chamber, side chapel and vestries, and an embattled western tower. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.