PEASEMORE, a parish in the hundred of FAIRCROSS, county of BERKS, 4 miles (W. S. W.) from East Ilsley, containing 284 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Berks, and diocese of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £12. 12. 1., and in the patronage of J.A. Houblon, Esq. In the church is a memorial of William Coward, lord of the manor, who, though his income did not exceed £ 110 per annum, built at his own expense the tower of the church, and gave the great bell and communion plate, besides performing various other acts of charity; he died in 1739. The Wesleyan Methodists have a place of worship here.