Stanford-In-The-Vale (St. Denis)

STANFORD-IN-THE-VALE (St. Denis), a parish, in the union of Farringdon, partly in the hundred of Ock, but chiefly in that of Ganfield, county of Berks, 4 miles (E. S. E.) from Farringdon; containing, with the chapelry of Goosey, 1149 inhabitants, of whom 970 are in Stanford township. The parish comprises 2821a. 2r. 1p. The village is neatly built, and had formerly a market on Thursday and a fair on the festival of St. Denis, granted in 1230, by Henry III., to Ferrers, Earl of Derby. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £21. 1. 10½ net income, £337; patrons and appropriators, the Dean and Chapter of Westminster. There is a chapel of ease at Goosey. A quarry of stone in the parish is remarkable for its variety of fossil remains.