Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for GORING

GORING, a village and a parish in the district of Bradfield and county of Oxford. The village stands at the verge of the county, on the river Thames and the Great Western railway, near Icknield-street, 6 miles S of Wallingford; is connected, by a bridge, with Streatley, in Berks; presents a picturesque appearance; has a station with telegraph on the railway, and a post office, under Reading; and was formerly called Little Nottingham. The parish comprises 4, 377 acres. Real property, £5, 362. Pop., 947. Houses, 222. Roman coins, vases, pavements, and substructions have been found. A mineral spring here was formerly in high repute for cutaneous diseases. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £146. Patron, S. W. Gardiner, Esq. The church is very curious, and partly Norman; and has an embattled tower, with a conical topped round turret. An Augustinian nunnery once stood adjacent to the church; was founded in the time of Henry II.; and was given to Sir T. Pope, the founder of Trinity College, Oxford. There are a Lady Huntingdon's chapel, Lybbe's alms-houses with £62, Allnutt's charity for various purposes with £1, 082, and other charities with £20.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Goring AP/CP       Oxfordshire AncC
Place: Goring

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