WOOLHAMPTON, a parish in the hundred of THEALE, county of BERKS., 7 miles (E.) from Newbury, containing 387 inhabitants, The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Berks, and diocese of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £7. 17. 6., and in the patronage of the Rev, Lancelot Greenthwaite Halton. The church is dedicated to St, Peter. Here is a Roman Catholic chapel. The navigable river Keimet runs through the parish.