Description
Tadley, a parish in Hants, 5 miles NNW of Basingstoke station on the L. & S.W.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Basingstoke. Acreage, 2079; population of the civil parish, 1115; of the ecclesiastical, 1043. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester; net value, £135 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Winchester. The church of St Peter is a small and ancient building of flint and brick in the Early English style. St Mary's Church is a small building erected in 1874. St Saviour's is an iron church in the rectory meadow. There are Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
