East Hanney
| East Hanney | |
| Berkshire | |
|---|---|
 East Hanney | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SU4192 |
| Location: | 51°37’59"N, 1°24’18"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 796 (2001) |
| Post town: | Abingdon |
| Postcode: | OX12
dialling code=01235 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Vale of White Horse |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Wantage |
| Website: | TheHanneys |
East Hanney is a village in northern Berkshire standing on the Letcombe Brook about 3 miles north of Wantage. Historically East and West Hanney were a single ecclesiastical parish, named Hanney.[1]
Churches
East Hanney had a chapel by 1288, dedicated to Saint James, but Alice Yate is said to have dissolved it after she took over the manor]] in 1546.[1]
The present parish church of Saint James the Less[1] was designed by the Gothic Revival architect George Edmund Street in a 13th century English style and built in 1856.[2] It became redundant and has been converted into a private home.
Hanney Chapel is a Baptist chapel. It was built in 1862.[3] The chapel was closed after the First World War but reopened in 1943.[3]
Economic history
Dandridge's Mill is a Georgian water mill built in the 1820's as a silk mill.[4] It is a Grade II Listed building but after it ceased working it became derelict.[4] In 2007 it was restored as four private apartments.[4] It is a low-carbon redevelopment with a number of sources of renewable energy, including an Archimedean screw[4] on the millstream that powers the property's own electricity generator.
About the village
East Hanney has but one public house, the Black Horse[5] free house. There is also a branch of the Royal British Legion. Hanney War Memorial Hall includes a village shop with sub-Post Office.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Page & Ditchfield, 1924, pages 285-294
- ↑ Pevsner, 1966, page 133
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Introducing Hanney Chapel". Welcome to Hanney Chapel. http://www.hanney-chapel.org.uk/. Retrieved 2 January 2011.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Tyzack, Anna (4 November 2010). "Period Property". The Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/periodproperty/8109857/Georgian-property-Buckland-House-lives-again.html. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
- ↑ The Black Horse
Sources
- Page, W.H.; Ditchfield, P.H., eds (1924). A History of the County of Berkshire, Volume 4. Victoria County History. pp. 285–294.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus (1966). Berkshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 133.
Outside links
- The Hanneys – community website