Oare is a small village in the civil parish of Chieveley in the English county of Berkshire. A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet, but smaller than a Town or City. A civil parish in the United Kingdom is a unit of local government. Chieveley is a Village and Civil parish in the English county of Berkshire, located approximately to the north of Newbury, close England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Berkshire (ˈbɑːkʃə or /ˈbɑːkʃɪə/ say Baak-shuh/-sheer sometimes abbreviated to Berks) is a Home County in the South
History
Oare boasts the earliest documented history within the parish. In 638, King Edgar gave Oare Chapel to the Abbot of Abingdon, a gift witnessed by Saint Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury. Events By Place Asia The Muslims capture Jerusalem, Antioch, Caesarea Maritima and Akko Edgar I the Peaceful or the Peaceable (c 7 August 943&ndash8 July 975 1 The following list of Anglo-Saxon Abbots of Abingdon is taken from Kelly (2000 Dunstan (c909&ndash 19 May 988) was an Abbot of Glastonbury, a Bishop of Worcester, a Bishop of London, and an The Archbishop of Canterbury is the chief bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the Ten hides of land (around 1200 acres) accompanied it.
A monastic grange was built by the abbot at which he could rest on the arduous journey between Abingdon and Winchester. A monastic grange was a manor or other centre of a farming estate belonging to a Monastery and used for food production in France, Great Britain Winchester or Winton ( archaic) is a historic city in southern England, with a population of around 40000 within a radius of its centre 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 monks and prior to hold carp for their Friday meals. MONK is a Monte Carlo software package for simulating nuclear processes particularly for the purpose of determining the neutron multiplication factor or k-effective The grange was pulled down during the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the reign of Henry VIII, leaving the little church for the people. The Dissolution of the Monasteries, sometimes referred to as the Suppression of the Monasteries, was the formal process between 1536 and 1541 by which Henry VIII disbanded Henry VIII (28 June 1491 &ndash 28 January 1547 was King of England and Lord of Ireland, later King of Ireland and claimant to the Kingdom of Oare became a chapel of Chieveley at that time.
References
- Much of the text for this page was originally taken, with permission, from www.chieveley.info.
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