Hampstead Marshall

Hampstead Marshall is a parish, 3 miles north-west from Kintbury station on the Great Western railway, 4 west-south-west from Newbury, 7 south-east from Hungerford, in the Southern division of the county, hundred of Kintbury Eagle, petty sessional division, union and county court district of Newbury, rural deanery of Newbury, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. The Avon and Kennet canal, the river Kennet and the Great Western railway pass through the parish. The place received its addition, according to Ashmole, because it "formerly belonged to the Earl Marshal of England and was held by the tenure of the Rod of the Marshalsea."