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Waltham St. Lawrence

WALTHAM ST. LAWRENCE, a parish, in the union of Cookham, hundred of Wargrave, county of Berks, 5¼ miles (S. W.) from Maidenhead; containing 724 inhabitants. The parish comprises about 3500 acres; and the Great Western railway passes through the northern part of it. A fair is held on the 11th of August. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king's books at £7. 6. 8.; net income, £211; patron, Lord Braybrooke. Certain tithes were commuted for land in 1810, and others have been just commuted for a rentcharge of £350, of which £50 are payable to the vicar. The church contains a fine monument to Sir Henry Neville, a gentleman of the privy chamber in the reign of Edward VI., and who died in 1593. A school is supported by Lord Braybrooke, the lord of the manor, who has an ancient residence at Billingbear, in the parish. There are some small bequests. In a field between the church and the Bath road was a Roman station, where coins, urns, and tiles have frequently been dug up.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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