South Moreton

Coordinates: 51°35′20″N 1°11′28″W / 51.589°N 1.191°W / 51.589; -1.191
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South Moreton
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townDidcot
Postcode districtOX11
Dialling code01235
PoliceThames Valley
FireOxfordshire
AmbulanceSouth Central
UK Parliament
WebsiteSouth Moreton Village website
List of places
UK
England
Oxfordshire
51°35′20″N 1°11′28″W / 51.589°N 1.191°W / 51.589; -1.191

South Moreton is a village and

2011 Census recorded the parish population as 420.[1]

Manors

The

Domesday book of 1086 refers to Moretune. Its meaning is not entirely clear but four of the five manor houses are identifiable. Saunderville is still called The Manor. It is a moated manor house with horses grazing in the railed paddocks, seen to advantage from the railway. Huse or Bray is a recently renovated low building nearby, with a paddock in front, at the T-junction at the east end of the village. The only trace of Adresham is the terrace on which it once stood, opposite the village school. There is a 1950s house on the site. Fulscot
is 1⁄2 mile (800 m) west of the village, and is still a farm. It seems likely that the fifth manor on the Moreton ridge was in North Moreton.

At the time of the South Moreton

Inclosure Act, 1818 c.18,[2] the main landlord was Henry Hucks Gibbs, 1st Baron Aldenham and many of the inclosures were allotted to him.[3] Eventually a London butcher called Hedges used Rich's Sidings of the new Great Western Railway (2 miles (3 km) west by Didcot railway station) to supply much of the London meat trade. Hedges amassed a fortune and much local land, including the inclosures at Hall Farm and Fulscot Manor, both of which are still owned and farmed by his descendants.[citation needed
]

Churches

The

Strict Baptist chapel which has three services a week.[citation needed
]

Character and amenities

There are a few large old houses on the High Street, some newer cottages at the east of the village, modern social housing to the west, and some 17th-century cottages between, many thatched. The largest house in South Moreton is The Hall, very close to the Huse. It is the last working farm in the village. Much

Berkshire County Archives in Reading.[citation needed
]

South Moreton has a pub, a school, a church and a chapel.

School

South Moreton School, 200 yards (180 m) from the former village school at Gothic Lodge, is a county primary school.[6] with an attached pre-School.

Gothic Lodge (built 1825 as the previous village school) at the junction of the High Street with Church Lane (left) and Clement's Green (right)

Transport

London Paddington. Cholsey railway station is equally as close and is served by the line between Reading and Oxford
.

Community pub

The Crown Inn is the only surviving public house in the village. Formerly owned by

Asset of Community Value and reject the planning application.[8] The society fundraised to buy the pub, and reopened it in May 2019 as a community pub
.

At the time of the building of the Great Western Railway, the fit young "navvies" (originally "navigators") offered cash for lodgings, so many more of the village cottages were opened as public houses. The only one which still bears its name from that time is The Anchor on the road to the Astons, now extensively rebuilt.

References

  1. Office for National Statistics
    . Retrieved 20 July 2018.
  2. ^ An Act for inclosing lands in the Parish of South Moreton in the County of Berks. 58 Geo III Cap. 18, Berkshire Record Office D/EX 1215/1 1818
  3. ^ South Moreton Inclosure Award and Map
  4. ^ Ditchfield & Page 1924, pp. 498–504.
  5. ^ "St John the Baptist, South Moreton". Churn Churches.
  6. ^ South Moreton School: primary school
  7. ^ "route 94/94S/94C" (PDF). Thames Travel. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  8. ^ "Save the Crown Pub". Retrieved 20 July 2018.

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