Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for OARE

OARE, a chapelry in Chieveley parish, Berks; 2½ miles E of Chieveley village, and 5½ N by W of Thatcham r.station. Post-town, Chieveley, under Newbury. The statistics are returned with the parish. The living is ap. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Chieveley, in the diocese of Oxford. The church is later English, has a bell-turret. and was recently restored. There is a Quakers' burying-ground, long disused.


(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: Chieveley AP/CP       Berkshire AncC
Place: Oare

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