HAMPSTEAD-NORRIS, a parish in the hundred
of FAIRCROSS, county of BERKS, 3 miles (S. E. by S,)
from East Ilsley, containing 1111 inhabitants. The
living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of
Berks, and diocese of Salisbury, rated in the king's
books at £9. 18. llf., and in the patronage of the
Marquis of Downshire. The church is dedicated to
St. Mary. There are two places of worship belonging
to the Independents, and one for Wesleyan Methodists.
In Park coppice is a large tumulus, also the remains
of an intrenchment. The foundations of an ancient;
building, some tesselated pavement,.a few coins, and
a number of Roman bricks, were discovered, on excavating
a field near Well house, in 1827.