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Yattendon (St. Peter and St. Paul)

YATTENDON (St. Peter and St. Paul), a parish, in the union of Bradfield, hundred of Faircross, county of Berks, 6½ miles (N. E.) from Newbury; containing 246 inhabitants. This parish comprises by measurement 1400 acres, of which 1134 are arable, 90 pasture and meadow, and 176 woodland. It had formerly a weekly market on Tuesday, granted in 1258, with a fair on the festival of St. Nicholas, to Peter de Etyndon, and confirmed in 1319 to John de la Beche, with another fair on the festival of St. Peter and St. Paul. These have long been disused, but a fair is held on the 10th of July. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £14. 6. 8.; patron, the Rev. J. F. Howard: the tithes have been commuted for £400, and the glebe consists of 43 acres. Carte, the historian, wrote the greater part of his History of England at this place, and, dying in 1754, was buried in the church. A castle said to have been inhabited by King Alfred, occupied the site of the present manor-house; and a large field in the parish, where Alfred gained a decisive victory over the Danes, is still called England's Field.

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

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