COMPTON-BEAUCHAMP, a parish in the hundred of SHRIVENHAM, county of BERKS, 6 miles (S. by "W.) from Great Farringdon, containing 103 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Berks, and diocese of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £9. IS. 9., and in the patronage of J. A.Wright, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Swithin. Here is an extensive double-trenched encampment, thought to be Roman, from the coins discovered upon the spot, near which, and to the south of the church, passes the Iknield road. The Wilts and Berks canal has its course along the northern parts of this parish.