LETCOMB-REGIS, a parish in the hundred of
KINTBURY-EAGLE, county of BERKS, 2 miles (S. W.
byW.) from Wantage, comprising the chapelries of
East Challow and West Challow, and containing 800
inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the
archdeaconry of Berks, and diocese of Salisbury, rated
in the king's books at £10. 13. 7., endowed with £300
private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the
patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Winchester. The
church is dedicated to St. Andrew. Here is a school,
endowed, in 1730, by George Fettiplace, with £8 per
annum, for teaching twenty poor children to read. On
the summit of the chalk hills to the south of the village
is a very large quadrangular intrenchment, called Letcombe
Castle, with single earth-works; about a mile
north of which, the Roman Iknield-street crosses the
Vale of White Horse. A branch of the river Ock, and
the Wilts and Berks canal, also run through the parish.