BECKETT, a tything in the parish of SHRIVENHAM, and hundred of
SHRIVENHAM, county of BERKS, 4 miles (S. w. by s.)
from Farringdon. The population is returned with
the parish. The manor, soon after the Conquest, became
the property of the crown, and the manor-house
was occasionally made a royal residence. Dr. Shute
Harrington, the late Bishop of Durham, was born here
in 1734.