Upper Lambourn, Berkshire
Historical Description
Lambourn, Upper, a tithing in Lambourn parish, Berks, on the Lambourn river, 1½ mile NW of Lambourn. It has a small church erected in 1868, and also a Wesleyan chapel erected in 1859.
Cemeteries
About 1 acre of land was consecrated here in 1913 for Lambourn cemetery.
Churches
Church of England
St. Luke
The church of St. Luke, built and consecrated here, with a burial ground, in November, 1868, by the late Bishop Wilberforce, is a small edifice of red brick, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel and nave, the chancel only being consecrated: there are 100 sittings.
Methodist
Wesleyan Chapel
There is a Wesleyan chapel, built in 1859.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Berkshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Upper Lambourn are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Berkshire papers online:
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitations of Berkshire 1532, 1566, and 1665-6 is available online.