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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Midgham like this:
MIDGHAM, a chapelry in Thatcham parish, Berks; on the river Kennet, the Kennet and Avon cana1, and the Great Western railway, near woolhampton r. station, and 7 miles E of Newbury. Post town, Woolhampton, under Reading. Acres, 1,730. Real property, £2,498. Pop., 233. Houses, 56. The property is divided among a few. Midgham House is the seat of B. B. Green, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £105.* Patron, not reported. The church is ancient.
Midgham 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 Midgham itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Midgham, in West Berkshire and Berkshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/5838
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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