WINDSOR (OLD), a parish in the hundred of RIPPLESMERE, county of BERKS, 2 miles (S. B. by S.) from New Windsor, containing 1050 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Berks, and diocese of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £8. 6. 8., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the' Crown. The church is dedicated to St. Peter; in the churchyard are several tombs of noble individuals, and other distinguished characters. A parochial school, and four cottages with gardens attached, for poor persons, were erected in 1797, and endowed with land: here is also a female school of industry. The Roman road from: Silchester passes through a part of the parish. Previously to the Conquest this is said to have been the seat of several Saxon kings.