Hanney

Hanney was an ancient ecclesiastical parish about 3 miles (5 km) north of Wantage in the Vale of White Horse. It included the villages of East Hanney and West Hanney (known collectively as "The Hanneys") and Lyford.^[1] Hanney was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred the Vale of White Horse to Oxfordshire.

History

The villages were formerly islands in marshland, hence the Old English "-ey" ending of their toponyms. Charney Bassett, Childrey and Goosey are other nearby examples.

Parish churches

The parish church of Saint James the Great, West Hanney was the mother church of the parish.^[1] The church of St. Mary, Lyford was built in the Middle Ages as a dependent chapel.^[1] East Hanney had a dependent chapel of St. James by 1288 but it was dissolved in the 16th century.^[1] A new chapel of St. James the Less was built in the 1850s but then made redundant in the 20th century.^[2]

References

1 2 3 4 Page & Ditchfield, 1924, pages 285-294
↑ Pevsner, 1966, page 133

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. p. 133.

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The District of the Vale of White Horse

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Towns	Abingdon Caldecott Faringdon Wantage Belmont

Large villages	Blewbury Cumnor Chilswell Cumnor Hill Dean Court Farmoor Swinford Drayton East Challow East Hendred Grove Harwell Kennington Kingston Bagpuize with Southmoor Kingston Bagpuize Southmoor Marcham Cothill Milton North Hinksey Botley Harcourt Hill Radley St. Helen Without Dry Sandford Shippon Shrivenham Stanford in the Vale Bow Steventon Sunningwell Bayworth Boars Hill Foxcombe Hill Sutton Courtenay Watchfield Wootton Boars Hill Henwood Lamborough Hill

Other civil parishes (component villages and hamlets)	Appleford-on-Thames Appleton-with-Eaton Appleton Eaton Ardington and Lockinge Ardington Wick East Lockinge West Ginge West Lockinge Ashbury Idstone Kingstone Winslow Baulking Besselsleigh Bourton Buckland Gainfield Buscot Charney Bassett Childrey Chilton Coleshill Compton Beauchamp Knighton Denchworth East Hanney Eaton Hastings Fernham Frilford Fyfield and Tubney Fyfield Tubney Netherton Garford Goosey Great Coxwell Hatford Little Hatford Hinton Waldrist Duxford Kingston Lisle Letcombe Bassett Letcombe Regis Little Coxwell Littleworth Longcot Longworth Lyford Pusey Shellingford South Hinksey Hinksey Hill Sparsholt Uffington Upton West Challow West Hanney West Hendred East Ginge Woolstone Wytham Seacourt

Former districts and boroughs	Municipal Borough of Abingdon Abingdon Rural District Faringdon Rural District Wantage Urban District Wantage Rural District

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

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Coordinates: 51°37′N 1°24′W / 51.617°N 1.400°W / 51.617; -1.400

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