Key Page

Inside Cover

Scan & part of the map drawn from a survey by Francis Howard Willington in 1758, commissioned by Lord Holland (Henry Fox) Lord of the Manor of Watchfield. Courtesy of Victor Day, Shrivenham.


Copy of the Reference Key to the Willington map above

The Reference to ye Town


1.     Thomas Anger     Buildings & Close

2.     Robert Alders                  Ditto

3.     Mrs Blagroves                 Ditto

4.     Thos Blagroves Esq        Ditto

5.     Mr Boats                           Ditto

6.     Mr Connors                      Ditto

7.     Mr Evenals                       Ditto

8.     Sir Mark Pledule's          Ditto

9.     Henry Geering's              Ditto

10.   Tho Jacobs                        Ditto

11.   Bridget Lockey's             Ditto

12.   Mr Maslin's                      Ditto

13.   Mr Rusley's                      Ditto

14.   William Thomas             Ditto

15.   William Vokins              Ditto

16.   Mr Young's                     Ditto


Key to Abbreviations used in this book:

BRO      Berkshire Record Office

WRO    Wiltshire Record Office

NA        National Archives

PROB   Probate NA

VCH     Victoria County History


Related Links:

Shrivenham Heritage Society

Cranfield University. Barrington Heritage Centre 

Beckett, A Jewel in the parish of Shrivenham


Grateful thanks to Paul Williams for his kind permission to allow me to show so many of his early photographs of Watchfield and Rachel Daniels for allowing me access to Barrington documents.

  © Neil Maw 2013