Place:Compton, Berkshire, England

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NameCompton
Alt namesCompton-Parvasource: Family History Library Catalog
Contonesource: Domesday Book (1985) p 35
TypeVillage
Coordinates51.517°N 1.25°W
Located inBerkshire, England
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Compton is a village and civil parish in the River Pang valley in the Berkshire Downs about south of Didcot. It has a population of 1,521. The Pang flows through the village from NW to SE and is joined at the centre of the village by the Roden from the North, both as a winter bourne, a stream that only flows after periods of seasonal high rainfall.

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