Location and general description
Situated a couple of kilometers S.W. of Wantage on a branch of the river Ock. This is a large parish and includes the chapelries of East and West Challow.
Buildings
St. Andrew's Church
The Old House
Opposite the church and old enough to have been around when local landowners were of interest to my genealogical research.
The manor of ANTWICKS (formerly ANWICKS)
Richard ALDWORTH of Wargrave, purchased the manor from Edmund FETTIPLACE 1627–8 (Page and Ditchfield, 1924)People
The FETTIPLACE family
The FETTIPLACE family of this area were closely linked with those of Swinbrook, Oxon.The HATTON family
At enclosure in 1801-4 William HATTON of Childrey, gent and Richard BELCHER of Sparsholt, gent acted as trustees of Thomas HATTON, lord of the manor of West Challow, Berks., concerning land in Letcombe Regis and West Challow.
Amongst the HATTONs of nearby West Challow, Berks, is a Richard Hatton BELCHER son of Thomas HATTON, whilst at nearby Childrey, Berks, is a Richard Hatton BELCHER (1801-) son of Joseph BELCHER and Charlotte (nee HATTON).
In his 1804 Will, Thomas HATTON bequeathed the 'manor [of PETWICK or WEST CHALLOW]' to be sold for the benefit of his children Richard Belcher, William, Anne wife of John Reade and Rebecca' [Page & Ditchfield, 1924, n.p.]Related links
A selection of links to other sites with information about this place
- None at present
Bibliography
- PAGE, William and DITCHFIELD, P.H. (eds), 'Parishes: Letcombe Regis', A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 4 (1924), pp. 222-228. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=62704. Date accessed: 29 July 2008.
- LETCOMBE REGIS, The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)