East Hanney

East Hanney is a village and civil parish on Letcombe Brook about 3 miles (5 km) north of Wantage. Historically East and West Hanney were formerly a single ecclesiastical parish of Hanney.[2] East Hanney was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred the Vale of White Horse to Oxfordshire.

East Hanney
East Hanney
Location within Oxfordshire
Population796 (2001 census)[1]
OS grid referenceSU4192
Civil parish
  • East Hanney
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townWantage
Postcode districtOX12
Dialling code01235
PoliceThames Valley
FireOxfordshire
AmbulanceSouth Central
UK Parliament
WebsiteTheHanneys

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.[2] The present Church of England parish church of Saint James the Less[2] was designed by the Gothic Revival architect George Edmund Street in a 13th century English style and built in 1856.[3] It has since been made redundant and converted into a private home.

Hanney Chapel

Hanney Chapel is Non-conformist and was built in 1862.[4] It was closed after the First World War but reopened in 1943.[4]

Economic history

Dandridge's Mill is a Georgian water mill built in the 1820s as a silk mill.[5] It is a Grade II Listed building but after it ceased working it became derelict.[5] In 2007 it was restored as four private apartments.[5] It is a low-carbon redevelopment with a number of sources of renewable energy, including an Archimedean screw[5] on the millstream that powers the property's own electricity generator.

Amenities
The Black Horse

East Hanney has a public house, the Black Horse[6] free house. There is also a branch of the Royal British Legion. Hanney War Memorial Hall includes a village shop with sub-Post Office.

References
  1. "Area selected: Vale of White Horse (Non-Metropolitan District)". Neighbourhood Statistics: Full Dataset View. Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 22 June 2011. Retrieved 2 January 2011.
  2. Page & Ditchfield, 1924, pages 285-294
  3. Pevsner, 1966, page 133
  4. "Introducing Hanney Chapel". Welcome to Hanney Chapel. Retrieved 2 January 2011.
  5. Tyzack, Anna (4 November 2010). "Period Property". The Telegraph. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
  6. "The Black Horse". Archived from the original on 9 November 2012. Retrieved 21 August 2012.

Sources

Media related to East Hanney at Wikimedia Commons

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