In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Cold Ash like this:

COLD ASH, a chapelry in Thatcham parish, Berks; 3½ miles NE of Newbury r. station. Post town, Newbury. Pop., 750. The living is a vicarage. Value, £40. Patron, the Vicar of Thatcham. The church was built in 1865.

Cold Ash through time

Cold Ash 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 Cold Ash itself, go to Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Cold Ash, in West Berkshire and Berkshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/3608

Date accessed: 08th April 2026


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