West Hanney

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West Hanney
Berkshire

The Plough, West Hanney
Location
Grid reference: SU4192
Location: 51°37’59"N, 1°24’54"W
Data
Population: 496  (2001)
Post town: Abingdon
Postcode: OX12
Dialling code: 01235
Local Government
Council: Vale of White Horse
Parliamentary
constituency:
Wantage
Website: TheHanneys

West Hanney is a village in northern Berkshire, three miles north of Wantage. West and East Hanney were formerly a single ecclesiastical parish of Hanney.[1]

West Hanney has but one public house, the Plough Inn. It had another called The Lamb, until the latter closed in 2008.

Parish church

The village had a parish church by the time of the Domesday Book in 1086 but the earliest part of the present Church of England parish church of Saint James the Great dates from about 1150.[1]

West Hanney House is a Georgian building completed in 1724 as the Rectory.[2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Page & Ditchfield, 1924, pages 285-294
  2. Pevsner, 1966, page263

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. 293–294. 

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