ALDWORTH, a parish in the hundred of COMPTON,
county of BERKS, 4 miles (E. by S.) from East ILsley,
containing 293 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage,
in the archdeaconry of Berks, and diocese of Salisbury,
rated in the king's books at £8. 16. 0., and in the patronage
of the Master and Fellows of St. John's College,
Cambridge. The church, dedicated to St. Mary,
is an ancient structure, containing nine monuments,
elegantly sculptured, supposed to represent different
members of the De la Beche family, and to have been
executed in the fourteenth century: the tombs are disposed
under enriched arches; six of the effigies are
habited as knights in armour, the seventh is in ordinary
attire, and the remaining two are those of females.
Aldworth is thought by Hearne to have been a Roman
settlement.