Goring Heath
Goring Heath is a hamlet and civil parish in the Chiltern Hills in South Oxfordshire. The civil parish includes the villages of Whitchurch Hill and Crays Pond and some small hamlets. Goring Heath is about 4 miles (6.4 km) southeast of Goring-on-Thames and about 4.5 miles (7.2 km) northwest of Reading, Berkshire.
In 1724 Henry Alnutt, a lawyer of the Middle Temple in London, established a set of almshouses at Goring Heath. They form three sides of a courtyard, flanking a chapel of the same date.[2] In the 1880's a school was built beside the almshouses in what was intended to be the same architectural style.[3] A post office was added in 1900.[3]
Alnutt also left a continuing income from his estate at Goring Heath to teach, clothe and apprentice boys from five parishes.[4] One of the parishes was Cassington in West Oxfordshire, where Alnutt's charity established a small school for boys.[4] In 1833 the Allnut school was absorbed into a new Cassington parish school, which in 1853 became Cassington's present St. Peter's Church of England primary school.[4]
References
Sources
- Crossley, Alan & C.R. Elrington (eds.); A.P. Baggs, W.J. Blair, Eleanor Chance, Christina Colvin, Janet Cooper, C.J. Day, Nesta Selwyn, S.C. Townley (1990). Victoria County History: A History of the County of Oxford, Volume 12: Wootton Hundred (South) including Woodstock. p. 53. ISBN 9780197227749.
- Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire. Harmondsworth: Penguin. pp. 616–617. ISBN 0 14 071045 0.
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Adwell • Aston Rowant • Aston Tirrold • Aston Upthorpe • Beckley and Stowood ( Beckley, Stowood) • Berrick Salome ( Berrick Prior, Roke, Rokemarsh) • Binfield Heath • Bix and Assendon ( Bix, Bix Bottom, Lower Assendon, Middle Assendon) • Brightwell Baldwin • Britwell Salome • Checkendon • Clifton Hampden ( Burcot) • Crowell • Cuddesdon and Denton ( Cuddesdon, Denton) • Culham • Cuxham with Easington ( Cuxham, Easington) • Dorchester • Drayton St. Leonard • East Hagbourne ( Coscote) • Elsfield • Eye and Dunsden ( Sonning Eye, Dunsden Green, Playhatch) • Forest Hill with Shotover ( Forest Hill, Shotover) • Goring Heath ( Whitchurch Hill, Cray's Pond) • Great Haseley (Latchford, Little Haseley, North Weston, Rycote) • Harpsden • Highmoor (Satwell) • Holton • Ipsden • Kidmore End ( Gallowstree Common) • Lewknor ( Postcombe, South Weston) • Little Milton • Little Wittenham • Long Wittenham • Mapledurham ( Trench Green, Chazey Heath) • Marsh Baldon ( Baldon Row) • Moulsford • Nettlebed • Newington ( Great Holcombe) • North Moreton • Nuffield • Nuneham Courtenay • Pishill with Stonor ( Pishill, Stonor, Maidensgrove, Russell's Water) • Pyrton (Clare, Standhill) • Rotherfield Greys • Rotherfield Peppard • Shirburn • South Moreton ( Fulscot) • South Stoke ( Littlestoke) • Stadhampton ( Chiselhampton, Brookhampton, Ascott) • Stanton St. John (Woodperry) • Stoke Row • Stoke Talmage • Swyncombe • Sydenham (Kingston Stert) • Tetsworth • Tiddington-with-Albury ( Tiddington, Albury) • Toot Baldon • Towersey • Warborough ( Shillingford) • Waterstock • West Hagbourne • Whitchurch-on-Thames • Woodeaton • Waterperry with Thomley ( Waterperry, Thomley) • Wheatfield • Wilcote
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