WELFORD, a parish partly in the hundred of
KINTBURY-EAGLE, but chiefly in that of FAIRCROSS,
county of BERKS, 5 miles (N. W.) from Speenhamland,
containing 1058 inhabitants. The living is a rectory,
in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean of Salisbury
rated in the king's books at £35. 15. 5., and
in the patronage of the Rev. H. Sawbridge. At the
period of the Norman survey here were two churches;
that remaining, dedicated to St. Gregory, has a rude
Norman round tower supporting an early English stage,
crowned With a decorated spire, the body of the struc-'
ture exhibiting the later style.