Author: HEWITT, William, Jun.
Title: The history & antiquities of the Hundred of Compton, Berks, being a topographical, statistical, and archaeological description of the parishes of Aldworth, Compton, East Ilsley, West Ilsley, Chilton, Catmere, and Farnborough: to which are added dissertations on the Roman station 'Calleva Attrebatum', and the Battle of Ashdown; with an account of Cuckhamsley, Lowborough, and other antiquities in the neighbourhood.
Description: Reading: published and sold by John Snare, 1844. 22cm. xii, 164pp, portrait frontis, maps (one folding), suite of plates at rear. Original blindstamped brown grained-cloth gilt, uncut. Extremes lightly rubbed; small neat repairs to spine. Very good ex-library copy with minimal evidence.

Keywords: Local History Topography Villages England Berkshire. Compton (Berkshire, England) History.


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