BUCKLEBURY, a parish in the'hundred of READING, though locally in that of Faircross, county of BERKS, 7 miles (E. N. E.) from Newbury, containing 1143 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, with the perpetual curacy of Marston, in the archdeaconry of Berks, and diocese of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £ 17, and in the patronage of the Rev. W. H. H. Hartley: the vicar enjoys the great tithes of the chapelry of Marston. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, contains an organ that cost £210, presented by the present vicar, to whom the manor belongs. This parish is entitled to send scholars to the school at Thatcham, founded and endowed by Lady Frances Winchcombe, in 17Q7, (to whose-memory there is. a monument in the church of this parish), in which forty boys are clothed and educated, and six apprenticed annually, with a premium of £10 each; those who are not apprenticed receive also a small gratuity.