East Hendred
| East Hendred | |||
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 36 ′ N , 1 ° 18 ′ W | ||
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| Residents | 1092 ( 2001 census ) | ||
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| Post town | Didcot | ||
| ZIP code section | OX12 | ||
| prefix | 01235 | ||
| Part of the country | England | ||
| region | South East England | ||
| Shire county | Oxfordshire | ||
| District | South Oxfordshire | ||
| Civil Parish | East Hendred | ||
| British Parliament | Wantage | ||
| Website: East Hendred | |||
East Hendred is a village and civil parish in the English county of Oxfordshire , about 7 km east of Wantage in the Vale of White Horse and a similar distance west of Didcot . Until 1974 the place was part of the county of Berkshire .
The East Hendred Brook flows through the Parish which stretches from the Vale of White Horse up to Berkshire Downs . The western edge of the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus is also within the Parish. The Ridgeway and Icknield Way , two old streets , also pass through.
history
East Hendred is the Scutchamer Knob , where, according to legend , King Edwin killed Cwichelm from Wessex in the seventh century . Scutchamer Knob is the site of a chamberless giant bed from the Iron Age and was the meeting place for the Shire Moot in the Middle Ages . It is located on the Ridgeway National Trail at the south end of the village.
The Parish was divided into five manor houses: King's Manor, Abbey Manor, Frampton's Manor, New College Manor and Arches Manor. Abbey Manor was an estate of Reading Abbey . Hendred House is Arches' mansion. It is home to the Eystons, the oldest family in old Berkshire, who still own the same manor . One of the local pubs is named after them.
Hendred House and the Eyston family
The village is unusual for the Hendred House estate, which was owned by the same family for six hundred years. The Eystons bought the property in the mid-15th century and have remained masters of the house to the present day.
The Eyston family were among those who resisted the English Reformation and remained Roman Catholic . This step had a strong impact on the history and development of the village. The medieval private chapel dedicated to Saint Amand , which belongs to Hendred House, remained a Catholic church and is still used occasionally for religious services today. The family also had St Mary's Church built and founded St Amand's School in the 19th century.
Notable members of the family included Charles Eyston , a 17th-century antiquarian, and George Eyston , who held a land speed record in the 1930s .
Parish church
The parish church of the Church of England is dedicated to Augustine of Canterbury and dates from the 12th century. In 1996, the future Prime Minister David Cameron married his wife Samantha . It contains a rare, working example of a clock by John Seymour from Wantage, which was made in the 16th century, as well as a carillon that plays the Angel's hymn by Orlando Gibbons every three hours . The church has a square steeple on the west side.
There is also a Roman Catholic parish church in East Hendred, St Mary .
monastery
The Holy Trinity Monastery , founded in 2004 and a community of Benedictine women , is located adjacent to the Catholic parish church of St Mary .
Other facilities
There are three pubs in East Hendred , The Wheatsheaf, Eyston Arms and The Plow. The Champs Chapel Museum of East Hendred in an old roadside chapel from the 15th century collects artifacts, photographs and other archival material from the village's history.
See also
supporting documents
- ^ Area: East Hendred CP (Parish): Parish Headcounts . In: Neighborhood Statistics . Office for National Statistics . Retrieved March 22, 2010.
- ↑ askamum.co.uk ( Memento of the original from March 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
literature
- M Addenbrook: East Hendred: a brief guide . The Hendreds Society, 1971.
- D Gibson (Ed.): A Parson in the Vale of White Horse: George Woodward's Letters from East Hendred 1753-1761 . Alan Sutton Publishing, 1982.
- ER Manley: A Descriptive Account of East Hendred . privately published, 1969.
- WH Page, PH Ditchfield (Ed.): A History of the County of Berkshire, Volume 4 (= Victoria County History ) 1924, pp. 294-302.
- Nikolaus Pevsner : Berkshire (= The Buildings of England ). Penguin Books , Harmondsworth 1966, pp. 133-134.
