STANFORD-in-the-VALE, a parish partly in the hundred of OCK, but chiefly in that of GANFIELD, county of BERKS, 4 miles (E. S. E.) from Great Farringdon, containing, with the joint chapelry of Goosey with Circourt, 931 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Berks, and diocese of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £21. 1. lO., and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster. The church is dedicated to St. Denis. About twenty-five children are instructed for £7 per annum, arising from the united bequests of John Hulton, in 1750, and William Shilton, in 1753. Here was formerly a market on Thursday, with a fair on the festival of St. Dionysius, by corruption St. Denis, granted in 1230 to Ferrars, Earl of Derby, by Henry III.