Goring Heath
Hamlet in Oxfordshire, England
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::summary Hamlet in Oxfordshire, England ::
::data[format=table title="infobox UK place"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| official_name | Goring Heath |
| static_image | Allnutts Hospital Goring Heath Geograph-2219579-by-Christopher-Hilton.jpg |
| static_image_caption | Allnutt's Hospital almshouses, Goring Heath, seen from the southwest |
| coordinates | |
| os_grid_reference | SU6579 |
| label_position | top |
| area_total_km2 | 11.44 |
| population | 1227 |
| population_ref | (parish, including Whitchurch Hill) (2011 census) |
| civil_parish | Goring Heath |
| shire_district | South Oxfordshire |
| shire_county | Oxfordshire |
| region | South East England |
| country | England |
| post_town | Reading |
| postcode_district | RG8 |
| postcode_area | RG |
| constituency_westminster | Henley and Thame |
| website | |
| :: |
| official_name = Goring Heath | static_image = Allnutts Hospital Goring Heath Geograph-2219579-by-Christopher-Hilton.jpg | static_image_caption = Allnutt's Hospital almshouses, Goring Heath, seen from the southwest | coordinates = | os_grid_reference = SU6579 | label_position = top | area_total_km2 = 11.44 | population = 1227 | population_ref = (parish, including Whitchurch Hill) (2011 census) | civil_parish = Goring Heath | shire_district = South Oxfordshire | shire_county = Oxfordshire | region = South East England | country = England | post_town = Reading | postcode_district = RG8 | postcode_area = RG | dial_code = | constituency_westminster = Henley and Thame | website =
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 centred 3 mi southeast of Goring-on-Thames and about 4 mi 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. In the 1880s a school was built beside the almshouses in what was intended to be the same architectural style. A post office was added in 1900.
Alnutt also left a continuing income from his estate at Goring Heath to teach, clothe and apprentice boys from five parishes. One of the parishes was Cassington in West Oxfordshire, where Alnutt's charity established a small school for boys. In 1833 the Alnutt school was absorbed into a new Cassington parish school, which in 1853 became Cassington's present St. Peter's Church of England primary school.
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Nearest places
|title = Nearest Places (by Civil Parish) |Centre = Goring Heath |North = Woodcote |Northeast = Woodcote (part) |East = Kidmore End |Southeast = Mapledurham |South = Whitchurch-on-Thames |Southwest = Basildon |West = Goring-on-Thames |Northwest = Goring-on-Thames (part)
References
- "Area: Goring Heath CP (Parish): Key Statistics: Population Density". Office for National Statistics.
- Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, pages 616-617
- Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, pages 617
- Crossley & Elrington, 1990, page 53
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