5 May 2011
The manor of Thatcham and the right of presentation to the living continued in the Winchcombe family for more than 170 years. After the death in 1718 of Frances, one of the daughters of Sir Henry Winchcombe, the last baronet, the Manor came into the possession of her husband, Viscount Bolingbroke; but Bolingbroke having been …
4 May 2011
On the taking of an inquisition directed by Henry VIII in 1517, as to enclosures in Berks, it was found that the Abbot of Reading held one messuage and 20 acres of land at Crookham which probably was the property (Chamberhouse) that had been in the occupation of Sir John Danvers and of his father …
3 May 2011
For upwards of two hundred years the manor and rectory of Crookham belonged to distinguished members of the house of Salisbury, and for nearly two hundred years previously, with a short interval of less than twenty years, to the Fitzherbert family distinguished men most of them warriors and statesmen.
2 May 2011
In the early part of 1226, Peter FitzHerbert, the lord of the manor of Crookham, one of the members of a family who owned the Crookham Estate for 200 years, conveyed to abbot Simon and the monks of Reading a meadow in Thatcham.
1 May 2011
In the year 1859, the parish of Thatcham comprised not only the parish now known by that name, but also those of Midgham and Greenham, which were formerly two chapelries in the parish, as well as the newly-formed ecclesiastical district of Cold Ash, all forming one large area. It was the most extensive parish in …