Charney Bassett, Oxfordshire, OX12 0HA
Date of visit: 28th Dec 2021
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Charney Bassett is a village and civil parish about 4+1⁄2 miles (7 km) north of Wantage and 6 miles (10 km) east of Faringdon in the Vale of White Horse. It was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire.
Charney Bassett has been settled since the Anglo-Saxon era. The earliest known records of the locality’s history records a grant of land to the Abbot of Abingdon Abbey in 811. The surrounding area was largely marshland and the meaning of Charney is “island in the River Cearn”. This was an alternative name for the River Ock, that runs close by and which supplies the mill stream. In about 1630 the Quaker evangelist Joan Vokins was born to Thomas Bunce of Charney.
Internal ref number: ON/174/026
Date of Visit: 28th Dec 2021
Kiosk Type: K6
Door Type: D
Crown: Tudor
Kiosk Colour: Red
Usage: Defrib
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Northing & Westing: 51°38’54.2″N, 1°27’11.1″W
what3words: charities.next.eventful
Grid Reference: SU 37936 94540
OS X & Y: 194540, 437936
Latitude & Longitude: 51.64838, -1.453098
UK Postcode: OX12 0HA
County: Oxfordshire
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