DENCHWORTH, a parish in the hundred of WANTAGE,
county of BERKS, 2 miles (N. W. by N.) from Wantage,
containing 254 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Berks, and diocese of
Salisbury, rated in the Icing's books at £7. 10. 10., endowed
with £600 private benefaction, £200 royal
bounty, and £600 parliamentary grant, and in the
patronage of the Provost and Fellows of Worcester
College, Oxford. The church is dedicated to St. James.
Richard Gilgrasse, in 1729, bequeathed £50 for the
instruction of children, which, with a donation of £50
from another benefactor, produces £8. 16. per annum,
applied in aid of a National school.