ENBORNE, a parish in the hundred of KINTBURY-EAGLE, county of BERKS, 2 miles (W. S."W.) from Newbury, containing 349 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Berks, and diocese of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £10,- and in the patronage of the Earl of Craven. The church is dedicated to St. Michael. The Rennet and Avon canal passes through the parish. The custom of free bench prevails in the manor of East and West Enborne, whereby the widow of a tenant is entitled to an estate in copyhold, for her dower, while she continues single and chaste, in default of which she forfeits her lands, unless she choose to demand them by riding into court backwards on a black ram, and repeating a piece of loose doggrel rhyme.