West Challow

West Challow, formerly a township of Letcombe Regis civil parish, was formed into a separate parish, with East Challow, in 1852 (the township maintaining its own poor and being distinct for parochial and other purposes), in the Northern division of the county, hundred of Kintbury Eagle, petty sessional division; union and county court district of Wantage, archdeaconry of Berks, rural deanery of Wantage, and diocese of Oxford; this township lies to the south of the Great Western railway, 2½ miles north-west from Wantage.