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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Grazeley like this:
GRAZELEY, a chapelry in the parishes of Shinfield, Sulhampstead Abbots, and Sulhampstead Bannister, Berks; gear the Reading and Basingstoke railway, 4 mile SSW of Reading. It was constituted in 1854; and its post town is Shinfield, under Reading. Pop., 648. Houses, 131. Pop. of the Shinfield porting, 462. Houses, 92. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £35. * Patron, the Bishop of Oxford.
Grazeley is now part of WEST BERKSHIRE Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how WEST BERKSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Grazeley itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Grazeley, in West Berkshire and Berkshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/3247
Date accessed: 09th April 2026
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