Charney Manor is a 13th-century

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Charney Bassett Charney Bassett is a village and civil parish about north of Wantage and east of Faringdon in the Vale of White Horse. It was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire. The 2011 Census recorded the par ...

now in the

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county of Oxfordshire (but formerly in Berkshire). It is a grade I

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. Charney Manor was originally a grange of

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. It was later rented out to the Yate family. It is currently a Quaker retreat and

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Berkshire History: Charney Manor
Buildings and structures completed in the 13th century Country houses in Oxfordshire Grade I listed houses in Oxfordshire {{Oxfordshire-struct-stub