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{{Short description|Village in Oxfordshire, England}}
{{For|the Hatford meteorite of 1628|meteorite falls}}
{{For|the Hatford meteorite of 1628|meteorite falls}}
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|official_name= Hatford
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|static_image_caption= St George's parish church
| static_image_caption = St George's parish church
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| population = 98
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| population_ref = ([[United Kingdom Census 2001|2001 census]])<ref>{{cite web |url=http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=4&containerAreaId=790499 |title=Area selected: Vale of White Horse (Non-Metropolitan District) |work=Neighbourhood Statistics: Full Dataset View |publisher=[[Office for National Statistics]] |access-date=30 March 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622111457/http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=4&containerAreaId=790499 |archive-date=22 June 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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|population= 98
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| civil_parish = Hatford
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|population_ref= ([[United Kingdom Census 2001|2001 census]])<ref>{{cite web |url=http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=4&containerAreaId=790499 |title=Area selected: Vale of White Horse (Non-Metropolitan District) |author= |date= |work=Neighbourhood Statistics: Full Dataset View |publisher=[[Office for National Statistics]] |accessdate=30 March 2010}}</ref>
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| shire_district = [[Vale of White Horse]]
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|civil_parish= Hatford
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| shire_county = [[Oxfordshire]]
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|shire_district= [[Vale of White Horse]]
| region = South East England
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|shire_county= [[Oxfordshire]]
|region= South East England
| country = England
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| post_town = [[Faringdon]]
|country= England
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|post_town= [[Faringdon]]
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| constituency_westminster = [[Didcot and Wantage (UK Parliament constituency)|Didcot and Wantage]]
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'''Hatford''' is a village and [[Civil parishes in England|civil parish]] of some {{convert|1000|acre|ha}} in the [[Vale of White Horse]]. It was part of [[Berkshire]] until the [[Local Government Act 1972|1974 boundary changes]] [[List of Berkshire boundary changes|transferred it to Oxfordshire]].
'''Hatford''' is a village and [[Civil parishes in England|civil parish]] of some {{convert|1000|acre|ha}} in the [[Vale of White Horse]]. It was part of [[Berkshire]] until the [[Local Government Act 1972|1974 boundary changes]] transferred it to [[Oxfordshire]].


==Amenities==
==Amenities==
As Hatford is so small it has almost no amenities, but the Community Bus Service from [[Stanford in the Vale]] provides regular transport to the nearby market towns of [[Faringdon]] and [[Wantage]]. Hatford has no village shop and no [[public house]]. There was an [[Licensing laws of the United Kingdom#Off-licence|off-licence]] until the [[World War II|Second World War]], until this received a direct hit from a German bomb (see below).
As Hatford is so small it has almost no amenities. Hatford has no village shop and no [[public house]]. There was an [[Licensing laws of the United Kingdom#Off-licence|off-licence]] until the [[World War II|Second World War]], until this received a direct hit from a German bomb (see below).


==Geography==
==Geography==
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==History==
==History==
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The earliest evidence of human habitation is a [[Bronze Age Britain|Bronze Age]] spearhead, found near the river Hat. Signs of an early Iron Age settlement have also been found and there is thought to have been at least one [[Roman villa]], in fields next to the present village. Despite its long history, the population of Hatford has not changed much in size since the time of the [[Domesday Book]], when it had some 120 residents.
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[[File:Hatford Village.jpg|thumb|left|Hatford Cottage, with the former Holy Trinity parish church to the right]]
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The earliest evidence of human habitation is a [[Bronze Age Britain|Bronze Age]] spearhead, found near the river Hat. Signs of an early [[British Iron Age|Iron Age]] settlement have also been found and there is thought to have been at least one [[Roman villa]], in fields next to the present village. Despite its long history, the population of Hatford has not changed much in size since the time of the [[Domesday Book]], when it had some 120 residents.


Hatford has had two [[Church of England parish church|Anglican parish churches]]. The later of these, the church of the Holy [[Trinity]] (built in 1873–4 to a design by [[William Wigginton]])<ref>{{cite book|last=Pevsner|first=Nikolaus|title=Berkshire|year=2002|publisher=Penguin|location=London|isbn=9780300095821|page=154|url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=MRXytR8FAJgC&pg=PA154&dq}}</ref> became dilapidated and was finally deconsecrated and sold in 1972, for use as a private dwelling. The older [[Saint George]]'s was reopened in the same year, reroofed in 1973 and reglazed in 1974; reinstated as Hatford's place of worship.
Hatford has had two [[Church of England parish church|Anglican parish churches]]. The later of these, the church of the Holy [[Trinity]] (built in 1873–4 to a design by [[William Wigginton]])<ref>{{cite book|last=Pevsner|first=Nikolaus|title=Berkshire|year=2002|publisher=Penguin|location=London|isbn=9780300095821|page=154|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MRXytR8FAJgC&pg=PA154}}</ref> became finally deconsecrated and sold in 1972, for use as a private dwelling. The older [[Saint George]]'s was reopened & reinstated as a place of worship in the same year; reroofed in 1973 and reglazed in 1974. St George's stands on the site of the [[Anglo-Saxon architecture|Saxon]] church mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. It is mostly [[English Gothic architecture#Early English Gothic|Early English Gothic]], with a [[Norman architecture|Norman]] south doorway to the [[nave]] and [[chancel]] arch and a Norman [[Baptismal font|font]]. One Saxon window is still visible and there is a [[sundial]] carved into the stone near the doorway.


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The [[manor house]], next to St George's parish church, has an 18th-century front but parts of the house date from the 15th century. It stands at the western approach to the village and has an uninterrupted view of the [[Berkshire Downs]] and the [[Uffington White Horse]]. On the other side of St George's is the [[rectory]]. Next to the rectory, facing the B4508 road through the village, is Hatford Cottage, which was converted into a single house from a row of very early cottages. It was an antique shop in the 1960s.
St George's stands on the site of the [[Anglo-Saxon architecture|Saxon]] church mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. It is mostly [[English Gothic architecture#Early English Gothic|Early English Gothic]], with a [[Norman architecture|Norman]] south doorway to [[nave]] and [[chancel]] arch and a Norman [[Baptismal font|font]]. One [[Anglo-Saxon architecture|Saxon]] window is still visible. There is a [[sundial]] carved into the stone near the doorway.


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On 29 April 1555 [[Anne Dudley, Countess of Warwick (died 1588)|Anne Dudley]], the widowed [[Earl of Warwick|Countess of Warwick]], and Sir [[Edward Unton (high sheriff)|Edward Unton]] of Wadley House were married at St George's. Anne was the daughter of [[Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset|Edward Seymour, the Duke of Somerset]] and niece to [[Jane Seymour]], who married [[Henry VIII of England|King Henry VIII]]. In 1643, during the [[English Civil War]], the [[parish register]] records the burials of two soldiers killed in action. The old village off-licence received a direct hit from a German bomb in September 1940. One village girl was killed, as well as two young London boys, who had been [[Evacuations of civilians in Britain during World War II|evacuated]] to stay with their grandparents, in order to escape the [[The Blitz|Blitz]].
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[[File:Hatford StGeorge SouthDoor.JPG|thumb|255px|Norman south doorway of St George's parish church]]
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[[File:Hatford StGeorge FourLight.JPG|thumb|255px|Four-light window in St George's parish church]]
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On 29 April 1555 [[Anne Dudley, Countess of Warwick|Anne Dudley]], the widowed [[Earl of Warwick|Countess of Warwick]], and Sir [[Edward Unton (high sheriff)|Edward Unton]] of Wadley House were married at St George's. Anne was the daughter of [[Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset|Edward Seymour, the Duke of Somerset]] and niece to [[Jane Seymour]], who married [[Henry VIII of England|King Henry VIII]].

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The [[manor house]], next to St George's parish church, has an 18th-century front but parts of the house date from the 15th century or even earlier. It stands at the western approach to the village and has an uninterrupted view of the [[Berkshire Downs]] and the [[Uffington White Horse]]. On the other side of St George's is the [[rectory]]. Next to the rectory, facing the B4508 road through the village, is Hatford Cottage, which was converted into a single house from a row of very early cottages. It was an antique shop in the 1960s.

In 1643, during the [[English Civil War]], the [[parish register]] records the burials of two soldiers killed in action.

The old village off-licence received a direct hit from a German bomb in September 1940. One village girl was killed and two young London boys, who had been [[Evacuations of civilians in Britain during World War II|evacuated]] to stay with their grandparents, in order to escape the [[The Blitz|Blitz]].


==Literary connection==
==Literary connection==
The [[Wiltshire]] thresher turned poet, [[Stephen Duck]], worked here in the early 19th century and commemorated life on a Hatford Farm in one of his last poems.
The [[Wiltshire]] thresher turned poet, [[Stephen Duck]], worked here in the early 19th century and commemorated life on a Hatford Farm in one of his last poems.

==Gallery==
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File:Hatford StGeorge SouthDoor.JPG|Norman south doorway of St George's parish church
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File:Hatford StGeorge FourLight.JPG|Four-light window in St George's parish church
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File:Hatford Village.jpg|Hatford Cottage, with the former Holy Trinity parish church to the right
</gallery>


==References==
==References==
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==Further reading==
==Further reading==
*{{cite book |editor1-last=Page |editor1-first=W.H. |editor1-link=William Henry Page |editor2-last=Ditchfield |editor2-first=P.H. |editor2-link=Peter Ditchfield |series=[[Victoria County History]] |title=A History of the County of Berkshire, Volume 4 |year=1924 |publisher= |location= |pages=461–463}}
*{{cite book |editor1-last=Page |editor1-first=W.H. |editor1-link=William Henry Page |editor2-last=Ditchfield |editor2-first=P.H. |editor2-link=Peter Ditchfield |series=[[Victoria County History]] |title=A History of the County of Berkshire, Volume 4 |year=1924 |pages=461–463}}
*{{cite book |last=Pevsner |first=Nikolaus |authorlink=Nikolaus Pevsner |series=[[Pevsner Architectural Guides#Buildings of England|The Buildings of England]] |title=Berkshire |year=1966 |publisher=[[Penguin Books]] |location=Harmondsworth |isbn= |page=154}}
*{{cite book |last=Pevsner |first=Nikolaus |author-link=Nikolaus Pevsner |series=[[Pevsner Architectural Guides#Buildings of England|The Buildings of England]] |title=Berkshire |year=1966 |publisher=[[Penguin Books]] |location=Harmondsworth |page=154}}


==External links==
==External links==
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[[Category:Villages in Oxfordshire]]
[[Category:Villages in Oxfordshire]]
[[Category:Civil parishes in Oxfordshire]]
[[Category:Civil parishes in Oxfordshire]]

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For the Hatford meteorite of 1628, see meteorite falls.

Hatford
St George's parish church
Hatford is located in Oxfordshire
Hatford
Hatford
Location within Oxfordshire
Population98 (2001 census)[1]
OS grid referenceSU3394
Civil parish
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District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
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51°39′04″N 1°30′43″W / 51.651°N 01.512°W / 51.651; -01.512

Hatford is a village and civil parish of some 1,000 acres (400 ha) in the Vale of White Horse. It was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire.

Amenities

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As Hatford is so small it has almost no amenities. Hatford has no village shop and no public house. There was an off-licence until the Second World War, until this received a direct hit from a German bomb (see below).

Geography

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The sandstone soil is a rich source of sand and gravel. Sand has been extracted here for many years and it was during quarrying, between 1937 and 1958, that an early Iron Age settlement was discovered. The lane leading north out of the village is called Sandy Lane.

History

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The earliest evidence of human habitation is a Bronze Age spearhead, found near the river Hat. Signs of an early Iron Age settlement have also been found and there is thought to have been at least one Roman villa, in fields next to the present village. Despite its long history, the population of Hatford has not changed much in size since the time of the Domesday Book, when it had some 120 residents.

Hatford has had two Anglican parish churches. The later of these, the church of the Holy Trinity (built in 1873–4 to a design by William Wigginton)[2] became finally deconsecrated and sold in 1972, for use as a private dwelling. The older Saint George's was reopened & reinstated as a place of worship in the same year; reroofed in 1973 and reglazed in 1974. St George's stands on the site of the Saxon church mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. It is mostly Early English Gothic, with a Norman south doorway to the nave and chancel arch and a Norman font. One Saxon window is still visible and there is a sundial carved into the stone near the doorway.

The manor house, next to St George's parish church, has an 18th-century front but parts of the house date from the 15th century. It stands at the western approach to the village and has an uninterrupted view of the Berkshire Downs and the Uffington White Horse. On the other side of St George's is the rectory. Next to the rectory, facing the B4508 road through the village, is Hatford Cottage, which was converted into a single house from a row of very early cottages. It was an antique shop in the 1960s.

On 29 April 1555 Anne Dudley, the widowed Countess of Warwick, and Sir Edward Unton of Wadley House were married at St George's. Anne was the daughter of Edward Seymour, the Duke of Somerset and niece to Jane Seymour, who married King Henry VIII. In 1643, during the English Civil War, the parish register records the burials of two soldiers killed in action. The old village off-licence received a direct hit from a German bomb in September 1940. One village girl was killed, as well as two young London boys, who had been evacuated to stay with their grandparents, in order to escape the Blitz.

Literary connection

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The Wiltshire thresher turned poet, Stephen Duck, worked here in the early 19th century and commemorated life on a Hatford Farm in one of his last poems.

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  • Norman south doorway of St George's parish church
    Norman south doorway of St George's parish church
  • Four-light window in St George's parish church
    Four-light window in St George's parish church
  • Hatford Cottage, with the former Holy Trinity parish church to the right
    Hatford Cottage, with the former Holy Trinity parish church to the right

References

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  1. ^ "Area selected: Vale of White Horse (Non-Metropolitan District)". Neighbourhood Statistics: Full Dataset View. Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 22 June 2011. Retrieved 30 March 2010.
  2. ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus (2002). Berkshire. London: Penguin. p. 154. ISBN 9780300095821.

Further reading

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