WALTHAM-ST. LAWRENCE, a parish, with a village, in Cookham district, Berks; 2¾ miles ENE of Twyford r. station. It has a post-office under Twyford, and a fair on 11 Aug. Acres, 3,468. Real property, £5,710. Pop., 848. Houses, 165. The property is much subdivided. A Roman camp is at Castle-Acre; and Roman coins, urns, and other relics have there been found. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £211. Patron, Lord Braybrooke. The church was restored in 1847. A chapel of ease is at Scurlock. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel, an endowed school with £35 a year, and charities £35.

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