Hungerford

Hungerford is a market and union town and head of a county court district, with a station on the Reading and Bath section of the Great Western railway, 23 miles west-by-south from Reading and 64 from London (by rail 61), 27 north-east from Salisbury, 26 south-west from Oxford, 24 east from Devizes, 16 south from Wantage, 8½ west from Newbury, 18 south-east from Swindon, and is in the Southern division of the county, Kintbury-Eagle hundred, Hungerford petty sessional division, rural deanery of Newbury, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. Hungerford is situated on the western border of the county. The Kennet and Avon canal affords communication by water with different parts of the country.