Description
Charney or Charney Basset, a township in Longworth parish, Berks, on the river Ock, 3 1/4 miles S from Longworth village, and 5 1/2 NNW of Wantage Road station on the G.W.R., with a post office under Wantage. Acreage, 1209 ; population, 202. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the rectory of Longworth, in the diocese of Oxford. The church is an ancient building of stone, originally Norman, but greatly altered. The manor-house is a building interesting on account of its great antiquity.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
