West Lockinge
| West Lockinge | |
| Berkshire | |
|---|---|
 All Souls, West Lockinge | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SU422877 |
| Location: | 51°35’13"N, 1°23’31"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Wantage |
| Postcode: | OX12 |
| Dialling code: | 01235 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Vale of White Horse |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Wantage |
West Lockinge is a village a mile and a half to the east of Wantage, within the Vale of White Horse in Berkshire. It is within the bounds of the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
A chalk stream Goddard's Brook emerges in the village, feeding into Ginge Brook, which eventually joins the River Ock near Abingdon. In 1993 a mixed conifer and deciduous woodland was planted behind the village, the area is named Christopher's Wood after Christopher Loyd, previous manager of the Lockinge Estate.
National Cycle Route 544 passes through the village.[1]
History
The route of the ancient Icknield Way passes through the village.[2] Arnhill and the nearby vicinity behind the village was an Iron Age fortification and Anglo-Saxon burial ground. Although a barrow was destroyed by ploughing, in approximately 1863 remains and artefacts were recovered from the summit of the hill.[3][4] West Lockinge had a tithe barn for several centuries but no trace of it now survives.[5] An open field system of farming also prevailed in West Lockinge parish until it was enclosed in 1808.[5] One cottage in the village is half-timbered and bears the date 1666.[5]
West Lockinge Farm has a Georgian farmhouse of five bays.[6] It is built of blue and red brick and has a hipped roof.[6] A record from 1770 of a "new erected messuage" at West Lockinge may refer to this house,[5] which has been enlarged by later alterations.[6]
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References
- ↑ "Didcot, Wantage and The Ridgeway". Sustrans. https://www.sustrans.org.uk/ncn/map/route/didcot-wantage-and-the-ridgeway.
- ↑ Thomas, Edward Jr. (1916). The Icknield Way. London: Constable & Company Ltd.. p. 51. ISBN 978-1447471929. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:50bcba10-92ac-42c4-844f-e834a1365e27. Retrieved 22 July 2015.
- ↑ Dickinson, Tania Maruerite (1977). The Anglo-Saxon burial sites of the upper Thames region, and their bearing on the history of Wessex, circa AD 400-700. Oxford: University of Oxford, Faculty of Anthropology and Geology. p. 147. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:50bcba10-92ac-42c4-844f-e834a1365e27. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
- ↑ Hallam, WH (1900). History of the Parish of East Lockinge Berks (2013 ed.). London. p. 96. http://www.forgottenbooks.com/books/History_of_the_Parish_of_East_Lockinge_Berks_1000297314. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Page & Ditchfield 1924, pp. 307–311.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Pevsner 1966, p. 170.
- A History of the County of Berkshire - Volume 4 pp 307-311: Parishes: East and West Lockinge (Victoria County History)
- Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Berkshire, 1966; 2010 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-12662-4
