East Ilsley

East Ilsley (or Market Ilsley, anciently Hildesley) is a small market town and parish, and head of a petty sessional division, 9 miles north from Newbury, 10 from Wantage, 11 south from Abingdon, 2 miles north-west from Compton station on the Didcot and Winchester railway, in the Southern division of the county, hundred of Compton, union and county court district of Wantage, rural deanery of Newbury, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford; it is situated on the side of a hill, surrounded by downs, which extend for some miles.