Human settlement in England
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Country | England |
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Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
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Post town | Reading |
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Postcode district | RG8 |
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Police | Thames Valley |
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Fire | Oxfordshire |
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Ambulance | South Central |
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UK Parliament | |
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Website | Goring Heath community website |
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51°31′12″N 1°05′49″W / 51.520°N 1.097°W / 51.520; -1.097 |
Goring Heath is a hamlet and civil parish in the Chiltern Hills in South Oxfordshire. The civil parish includes the villages of Whitchurch Hill and Crays Pond and some small hamlets. Goring Heath is centred 3 miles (4.8 km) southeast of Goring-on-Thames and about 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of Reading, Berkshire. In 1724 Henry Alnutt, a lawyer of the Middle Temple in London, established a set of almshouses at Goring Heath. They form three sides of a courtyard, flanking a chapel of the same date.[2] In the 1880s a school was built beside the almshouses in what was intended to be the same architectural style.[3] A post office was added in 1900.[3]
Alnutt also left a continuing income from his estate at Goring Heath to teach, clothe and apprentice boys from five parishes.[4] One of the parishes was Cassington in West Oxfordshire, where Alnutt's charity established a small school for boys.[4] In 1833 the Alnutt school was absorbed into a new Cassington parish school, which in 1853 became Cassington's present St. Peter's Church of England primary school.[4]
References
- ^ "Area: Goring Heath CP (Parish): Key Statistics: Population Density". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 11 February 2003. Retrieved 9 March 2010.
- ^ Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, pages 616-617
- ^ a b Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, pages 617
- ^ a b c Crossley & Elrington, 1990, page 53
Sources
- Baggs, A.P.; Blair, W.J.; Chance, Eleanor; Colvin, Christina; Cooper, Janet; Day, C.J.; Selwyn, Nesta; Townley, S.C. (1990). Crossley, Alan; Elrington, C.R. (eds.). Victoria County History: A History of the County of Oxford, Volume 12: Wootton Hundred (South) including Woodstock. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-19-722774-9.
- Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire. Harmondsworth: Penguin. pp. 616–617. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.
Nearest places
Nearest Places (by Civil Parish) |
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Large villages | |
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Other civil parishes (component villages and hamlets) | - Adwell
- Aston Rowant
- Aston Tirrold
- Aston Upthorpe
- Beckley and Stowood (Beckley, Stowood)
- Berrick Salome (Berrick Prior, Roke, Rokemarsh)
- Binfield Heath
- Bix and Assendon (Bix, Bix Bottom, Lower Assendon, Middle Assendon)
- Brightwell Baldwin
- Britwell Salome
- Checkendon
- Clifton Hampden (Burcot)
- Crowell
- Cuddesdon and Denton (Cuddesdon, Denton)
- Culham
- Cuxham with Easington (Cuxham, Easington)
- Dorchester
- Drayton St. Leonard
- East Hagbourne (Coscote)
- Elsfield
- Eye and Dunsden (Sonning Eye, Dunsden Green, Playhatch)
- Forest Hill with Shotover (Forest Hill, Shotover)
- Goring Heath (Whitchurch Hill, Cray's Pond)
- Great Haseley (Latchford, Little Haseley, North Weston, Rycote)
- Harpsden
- Highmoor (Satwell)
- Holton
- Ipsden
- Kidmore End (Gallowstree Common)
- Lewknor (Postcombe, South Weston)
- Little Milton
- Little Wittenham
- Long Wittenham
- Mapledurham (Trench Green, Chazey Heath)
- Marsh Baldon (Little Baldon)
- Moulsford
- Nettlebed
- Newington (Great Holcombe)
- North Moreton
- Nuffield
- Nuneham Courtenay
- Pishill with Stonor (Pishill, Stonor, Maidensgrove, Russell's Water)
- Pyrton (Clare, Standhill)
- Rotherfield Greys
- Rotherfield Peppard
- Shirburn
- South Moreton (Fulscot)
- South Stoke (Littlestoke)
- Stadhampton (Chiselhampton, Ascott, Brookhampton)
- Stanton St. John (Woodperry)
- Stoke Row
- Stoke Talmage
- Swyncombe
- Sydenham (Kingston Stert)
- Tetsworth
- Tiddington-with-Albury (Tiddington, Albury)
- Toot Baldon (Baldon Row)
- Towersey
- Warborough (Shillingford)
- Waterperry with Thomley (Waterperry, Thomley)
- Waterstock
- West Hagbourne
- Wheatfield
- Whitchurch-on-Thames
- Wilcote
- Woodeaton
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Former districts and boroughs | |
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Former constituencies | - Oxfordshire County Constituency
- Wallingford Borough Constituency
- Abingdon Borough Constituency
- Berkshire North or Abingdon County Constituency
- Abingdon County Constituency
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