Description
Hanney, East, a village and a township in West Hanney parish, Berks. The village stands on an affluent of the river Ock, near the Berks and Wilts Canal, 1 mile NNE from Wantage Road station on the G.W.R., and 3 miles NNE from Wantage, and has a post office under Wantage; money order and telegraph office, Wantage. The township comprises 2200 acres; population, 549. It forms a chapelry to West Hanney.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
