LONGWORTH, a parish comprising the chapelry of Charney in the hundred of GANFIELD, and the hamlet of Draycot-Moore in the hundred of OCK, county of BERKS, 7 miles (N. E. by E.) from Great Farringdon, and containing 974 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Berks, and diocese of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £27. 1. 10., and in the patronage of the Principal and Fellows of Jesus College, Oxford. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. There is a small sum for the instruction of children, the bequest of John Garter, by means of "which eight boys and gir s are taught to read and write. This parish is entitled to send five boys to the school at Kingston- Bagpuze. A National school has been lately established here. The ancient intrenchment called Cherbury Camp is in a detached part of the parish: it is of an oval form, surrounded by a triple vallum; the diameter in the widest part is three hundred and ten paces, and in the narrowest, two hundred and eleven. The river Isis runs through this parish. In the parochial register is an entry of the baptism of Bishop Fell, July 16th, 1625, whose father was rector of Longworth.