Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CHARNEY

CHARNEY, a chapelry in Longworth parish, Berks; on the river Ock, 3 miles NE by N of Faringdon Road r. station, and 4½ NNW of Wantage. Post Town, Longworth, under Faringdon. Acres, 1,220. Real property, £1,946. Pop., 241. Houses, 53. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the rectory of Longworth, in the diocese of Oxford. The church has a Norman doorway, and is good.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Charney Bassett Ch/CP       Longworth AP/CP       Berkshire AncC
Place: Charney Bassett

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