East Hanney is a village, and
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...
on
Letcombe Brook
Letcombe Brook is a stream in the Vale of White Horse in Oxfordshire, England. It rises at the foot of the Berkshire Downs in Letcombe Bassett and flows through Letcombe Regis, Wantage, Grove and East Hanney to join Childrey Brook, which is ...
about north of
Wantage
Wantage () is a historic market town and civil parish in Oxfordshire, England. Although within the boundaries of the historic county of Berkshire, it has been administered as part of the Vale of White Horse district of Oxfordshire since 1974. T ...
. Historically East and
West Hanney
West Hanney is a village and civil parish about north of Wantage, Oxfordshire, England. Historically West and East Hanney were formerly a single ecclesiastical parish of Hanney. East Hanney was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary cha ...
were formerly a single
ecclesiastical parish
A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or m ...
of
Hanney.
[Page & Ditchfield, 1924, pages 285-294] East Hanney was part of
Berkshire until the
1974 boundary changes transferred the Vale of White Horse to
Oxfordshire.
Churches
East Hanney had a chapel by 1288, dedicated to
Saint James, but Alice Yate is said to have dissolved it after she took over the
manor in 1546.
[ The present Church of England parish church of ]Saint James the Less
James the Less ( grc-gre, Ἰάκωβος ὁ μικρός ) is a figure of early Christianity, one of the Twelve chosen by Jesus. He is also called "the Minor", "the Little", "the Lesser", or "the Younger", according to translation. He is not to ...
[ was designed by the Gothic Revival architect ]George Edmund Street
George Edmund Street (20 June 1824 – 18 December 1881), also known as G. E. Street, was an English architect, born at Woodford in Essex. Stylistically, Street was a leading practitioner of the Victorian Gothic Revival. Though mainly an eccl ...
in a 13th century English style and built in 1856. It has since been made redundant and converted into a private home. Hanney Chapel is Non-conformist and was built in 1862.[
] It was closed after the First World War
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
but reopened in 1943.[
]
Economic history
Dandridge's Mill is a Georgian
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** Georgians, an indigenous Caucasian ethnic group
** Georgian language, a Kartvelian language spoken by Georgians
**Georgian scripts, three scrip ...
water mill
A watermill or water mill is a mill that uses hydropower. It is a structure that uses a water wheel or water turbine to drive a mechanical process such as milling (grinding), rolling, or hammering. Such processes are needed in the production ...
built in the 1820s as a silk
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mill. It is a Grade II Listed building
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but after it ceased working it became derelict.[ In 2007 it was restored as four private apartments.][ It is a low-carbon redevelopment with a number of sources of renewable energy, including an Archimedean screw][ on the millstream that powers the property's own electricity generator.
]
Amenities
East Hanney has a public house
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, the Black Horse free house. There is also a branch of the Royal British Legion
The Royal British Legion (RBL), formerly the British Legion, is a British charity providing financial, social and emotional support to members and veterans of the British Armed Forces, their families and dependants, as well as all others in ...
. Hanney War Memorial Hall includes a village shop with sub-Post Office.
Gallery
File:East Hanney Baptist Chapel.jpg, Hanney Chapel
File:East Hanney.jpg, The Black Horse
References
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External links
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Villages in Oxfordshire
Civil parishes in Oxfordshire