WARGRAVE, a parish in the hundred of WARGRAVE,
county of BERKS, 6 miles (N. E. by E.) from
Reading, containing 1409 inhabitants. The living is a
vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Berks, and diocese of
Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £13. 13. gi
and in the patronage of Lord Braybrooke, as lord of
the manor, and impropriator of the great tithes  to
whose ancestor, Sir Henry Nevill, the Billingbear' estates,
and the hundred of Wargrave, formerly attached
to the see of Winchester, were granted by Edward VI.
The church, dedicated to St. Mary, has a tower in the
later style of English architecture; it has lately received
an addition of two hundred and ninety-seven sittings,
of which one hundred and fifty are free, the Incorporated
Society for the enlargement of churches and chapels
having granted £200 towards defraying the expense.
The parish is bounded on the north by the
river Thames. Richard Aldworth, in 1692, bequeathed
an annuity of £5 for teaching four poor children 5 and
Robert Pigot, Esq., in 1796, left by will £6700, three
per cent, stock, directing the interest to be applied
towards instructing and clothing twenty boys and
twenty girls. A market, granted in 1218, to Peter de
Rupibus, Bishop of Winchester, which was held here on'
Monday, has been long disused.