Willow Cottage
Charney Bassett
Oxfordshire, England OX12 0EU
+44 (0) 1235-868802
Global Address: 1° 27' North - 51° 39' West
The quiet village of Charney Bassett is situated near 
the Cotswolds, in
open country beside the winding river Ock. It is in the North of the Vale of the White Horse, in
Ganfield Hundred near the city of Oxford. There has been a settlement
here since Anglo-Saxon times,
the earliest surviving record being a grant of lands to the abbot of Abingdon Abbey in 811 AD. The
land was originally mainly marsh and the meaning of Charney is "Cearn-isle" or
"the island beside the river Chearn".
To the north of the village is Cherbury camp, an Iron age fortification, the meaning of Cherbury being "the barrow beside the river Chearn".
St. Peter's is the village Church and has some sections as old as the 12th. century.
Close to the church is the charming rural water mill
built in 1807.
The village is also home to Charney Manor built as a grange for Abingdon Abbey when it owned extensive lands around the village.
Richard Stanway is Sonia's Son.
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