Goring Heath

Goring Heath
Goring Heath Goring Heath shown within Oxfordshire
Area	11.44 km² (4.42 sq mi)
Population	1,227 (parish, including Whitchurch Hill) (2011 census)^[1]
– density	107/km² (280/sq mi)
OS grid reference	SU6579
Civil parish	Goring Heath
District	South Oxfordshire
Shire county	Oxfordshire
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Reading
Postcode district	RG8
Police	Thames Valley
Fire	Oxfordshire
Ambulance	South Central
EU Parliament	South East England
UK Parliament	Henley
Website	Goring Heath community website
List of places UK England Oxfordshire

Coordinates: 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 Allnut 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]

Nearest places

Nearest Places (by Civil Parish)

Goring-on-Thames (part)

Woodcote

Woodcote (part)

Goring-on-Thames

Kidmore End

Goring Heath

Basildon

Whitchurch-on-Thames

Mapledurham

References

↑ "Area: Goring Heath CP (Parish): Key Statistics: Population Density". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 9 March 2010.
↑ Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, pages 616-617
1 2 Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, pages 617
1 2 3 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.

The district of South Oxfordshire

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Towns	Didcot Henley-on-Thames Thame (Moreton) Wallingford Watlington (Christmas Common, Northend)

Large villages	Benson (Preston Crowmarsh) Berinsfield Brightwell-cum-Sotwell (Brightwell, Mackney, Sotwell) Chalgrove Chinnor (Emmington, Henton, Oakley) Cholsey (Winterbrook) Crowmarsh (Crowmarsh Gifford, North Stoke, Mongewell, Newnham Murren) Ewelme Garsington Goring-on-Thames Great Milton Horspath (Bullingdon Green) Sandford-on-Thames Shiplake (Lower Shiplake) Sonning Common Wheatley (Littleworth) Woodcote

Other civil parishes (component villages and hamlets)	Adwell Aston Rowant Aston Tirrold Aston Upthorpe Baldons, (Baldon Row, Marsh Baldon, Toot Baldon) 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) 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, Brookhampton, Ascott) Stanton St. John (Woodperry) Stoke Row Stoke Talmage Swyncombe Sydenham (Kingston Stert) Tetsworth Tiddington-with-Albury (Tiddington, Albury) Towersey Warborough (Shillingford) Waterperry with Thomley (Waterperry, Thomley) Waterstock West Hagbourne Wheatfield Whitchurch-on-Thames Wilcote Woodeaton

Former districts and boroughs	Bullingdon Rural District Municipal Borough of Henley-on-Thames Henley Rural District Thame Urban District Municipal Borough of Wallingford Wallingford Rural District Crowmarsh Rural District Culham Rural District Goring Rural District Headington Rural District Thame Rural District

Former constituencies	Oxfordshire County Constituency Wallingford Borough Constituency Abingdon Borough Constituency Berkshire North or Abingdon County Constituency Abingdon County Constituency

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