WOODHAY (WEST), a parish (formerly a market
town) in the hundred of KINTBURY-EAGLE county of
BERKS, 6 Miles (S.W. byW.) from Newbury, containing
144 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
of Wilts, and diocese of Salisbury,'rated in
the king's books at £4. 4. 3., and in the patronage of
R. Sloper, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Lawrence.
The market', which was on Tuesday, was granted to one
of- the Barons St. Amand, in 1318, but it has been disused
from time immemorial.