West Challow
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| Population | 184 (2011 census) |
| OS grid reference | [[[:Template:Ordnance Survey url]] SU3688] |
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| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Wantage |
| Postcode district | OX12 |
| Dialling code | 01235 |
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| Police | Thames Valley |
| Fire | Oxfordshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
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West Challow is a village and civil parish about 2 miles (3 km) west of the market town of Wantage in the Vale of White Horse, England. The village is on Childrey Brook, which is a tributary of the River Ock. West Challow was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred the Vale of White Horse to Oxfordshire. The 2011 census recorded the parish's population as 184.[1]
Etymology
The place-name Challow is first attested in a charter of 947 (though the earliest surviving copy of the charter is twelfth-century) in the Old English phrase "to Ceawan Hlewe", which can straightforwardly be translated as "to Ceawa's burial mound",[2] where Ceawa is a personal name attested only here and in the place-name Chawridge.[3]Template:Rp[4] The name appears as Ceveslane (considered to be a misspelling of Ceveslaue) in the Domesday Book of 1086.[2][5] Thirteenth-century variants included Chaulea, Chaulauhe, Chawelawe and Shawelawe.[2][5]
The "West" element in the name, added to distinguish West Challow from East Challow, is first found in 1284 (in such forms as Westcha(e)lawe and Weschallawe).
Parish church
The Church of England parish church of Saint Laurence is part of the Benefice of Ridgeway, along with the parishes of Childrey, Kingston Lisle, Letcombe Bassett, Letcombe Regis and Sparsholt.[6]
Canal
The course of the former Wilts & Berks Canal passes through the parish, skirting the south side of the village. It was extended eastwards from Longcot to Challow in 1807Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. and was completed to the River Thames at Abingdon in 1810.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. The Wilts & Berks carried small amounts of canal cargo through Challow until at least 1895–96.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. Traffic on the canal had virtually ceased by 1901 and the route was formally abandoned in 1914. The Wilts & Berks Canal Trust is currently restoring the canal.
Manor of Challow
The Manor of Challow was granted by King Henry I to Robert Achard between 1107 and 1118, and passed later to Sir William Forster who held it in the early 17th century. Manor Farm is a Grade II* listed Queen Anne building with much older inclusions.
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Area: West Challow (Parish): Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 27 July 2011.
- ^ a b c Victor Watts, The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), p. 124.
- ^ Richard Coates, 'On Some Controversy Surrounding Gewissae / Gewissei, Cerdic and Ceawlin', Nomina, 13 (1989–90), 1–11.
- ^ John Insley, 'Britons and Anglo-Saxons', in Kulturelle Integration und Personennamen im Mittelalter, ed. by Wolfgang Haubrichs, Christa Jochum-Godglück (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2019), §4.
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Archbishops' Council (2010). "Benefice of Ridgeway". A Church Near You. Church of England. Retrieved 27 July 2011.
Sources
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Dalby, L.J. (2000) [1971]. The Wilts and Berks Canal (3rd ed.). Usk: Oakwood Press. ISBN 0-85361-562-4.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Page, W.H.; Ditchfield, P.H., eds. (1924). A History of the County of Berkshire. Victoria County History. Vol. 4. assisted by John Hautenville Cope. London: The St Katherine Press. pp. 222–228.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Pevsner, Nikolaus (1966). Berkshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 262–263.
External links
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