Mongewell, Oxfordshire

Description
Mongewell, a village and a parish in Oxfordshire, on the river Thames, at the boundary with Berks, 1 1/2 mile S of Wallingford station on the G.W.R., and 12 miles NW by N of Reading. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Wallingford. Acreage, 1654; population of the civil parish, 177; of the ecclesiastical, 118. The manor belonged at Domesday to Roger de Lacy. Mongewell House was formerly the seat of Dr Barrington, bishop of Durham. The present mansion is a modern building standing in 80 acres of grounds. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford ; net value, £225 with residence. The church is a neat building of flint and rubble in the Norman style, and contains a monument to a Saunders, and a tablet to the wife of Bishop Barrington.