Barkham

Barkham is a parish and village 2½ miles south-west from Wokingham and 6 south-east from Reading, in the eastern division of the county, petty sessional division and union of Wokingham, hundred of Charlton, county court district of Reading, and rural deanery of Reading, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. The village is a very ancient one, and is mentioned in the Domesday Survey and in the Abingdon Chronicle. It was granted to the abbey of Abingdon in A.D. 941, and can therefore claim an existence of over 1,000 years.