Upton

Upton, in Domesday "Optone," was held at the time of the great survey by Turstinus, son of Rolf: it was formerly a chapelry attached to Blewbury, but was formed into a separate parish, together with Aston Upthorpe, in 1862. Upton is on the road from Reading to Wantage, with a station on the Didcot, Newbury and Winchester railway, opened April, 1883, 16 miles north-west from Reading and 8 east from Wantage, in the Northern division of the county, hundred of Moreton, Wallingford petty sessional division, Wantage union and county court district, and in the rural deanery of Wallingford, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford.