Oare, Berkshire
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Oare is a small village in the
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. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...
of
Chieveley Chieveley is a village and large civil parish centred north of Newbury, Berkshire, Newbury in Berkshire, close to the M4 motorway and A34 road (England), A34 road. Chieveley services are within the parish. Geography A map of 1877 gave the ...
in the
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county of
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.


History

Oare boasts the earliest documented history within the parish. In 638, King Edgar gave Oare Chapel to the
Abbot of Abingdon The Abbot of Abingdon was the head (or abbot) of Anglo-Saxon and eventually Benedictines, Benedictine house of Abingdon Abbey at Abingdon-on-Thames in northern Berkshire (present-day Oxfordshire), England. The following is a list of abbots of Abin ...
, a gift witnessed by Saint
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,
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. Ten hides of land (around 1200 acres) accompanied it. A
monastic grange Monastic granges were outlying landholdings held by Monastery, monasteries independent of the Manorialism, manorial system. The first granges were owned by the Cistercians, and other orders followed. Wealthy monastic houses had many granges, mo ...
was built by the abbot at which he could rest on the arduous journey between Abingdon and
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. The grange was where Oare Farm House now stands. All that remains of the original is a very fine garden wall. The pond beside the church was formerly used by the
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s and prior to hold carp for their Friday meals. The grange was pulled down during the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the reign of
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, leaving the little church for the people. Oare became a chapel of Chieveley at that time. The church, dedicated to St Bartholomew, is described by
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as "C15, almost completely re-built in Decorated style in 1852". It is Grade II listed, as is Roean Cottage to the west, and a barn at Kiln Farm. The
M4 motorway The M4, originally the London-South Wales Motorway, is the third longest motorway in the United Kingdom, running from west London to southwest Wales. The English section to the Severn Bridge was constructed between 1961 and 1971; the Welsh ele ...
runs just to the north of the village between junctions 12 (
Theale Theale () is a village and civil parish in West Berkshire, England. It is southwest of Reading and 10 miles (16 km) east of Thatcham. The compact parish is bounded to the south and south-east by the Kennet & Avon Canal (which here incorpo ...
) and 13 ( Chieveley Services); this section opened in 1971.


References

*Much of the text for this page was originally taken, with permission, fro
www.chieveley.info


External links

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