BEENHAM, or Beenham-Vallence, a parish in Bradfield district, Berks; adjacent to the Kennet and Avon canal and to the Berks and Hants railway, 1 ¼. mile N of Aldermaston station, and 8½ WSW of Reading. It has a post office, of the name of Beenham, under Reading. Acres, 1,890. Real property, £2,548. Pop., 505. Houses, 105. The property is much subdivided. Beenham House and Beenham Lodge are chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £250.* Patron, Mrs. Bushnell. The church was chiefly rebuilt in 1860. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel and a national school. Stackhouse, the author of the "History of the Bible," was vicar.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))