Checkendon

Also known as Checkendon, Oxfordshire, Checkendon, Oxon

Checkendon is a village and civil parish about west of Henley-on-Thames in South Oxfordshire and about north west of Reading in Berkshire on a mid-height swathe of the Chilterns.

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Place details

Locality: South Oxfordshire
Region: England
Country: United Kingdom
Population: 0

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Key facts

UK place.official_name: Checkendon
UK place.static_image_name: Checkendon SSPeter&Paul southeast.jpg
UK place.static_image_caption: Parish church of Saints Peter and Paul
UK place.os_grid_reference: SU6683
UK place.label_position: top
UK place.area_total_km2: 9.85
UK place.population: 493
UK place.population_ref: (2011 census)
UK place.civil_parish: Checkendon
UK place.shire_district: South Oxfordshire
UK place.shire_county: Oxfordshire
UK place.region: South East England
UK place.country: England
UK place.post_town: Reading
UK place.postcode_district: RG8
UK place.postcode_area: RG
UK place.dial_code: 01491
UK place.constituency_westminster: Henley and Thame

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Wikidata facts

Population: 493
Area: 9.85
Official website: www.checkendon.org
Image: Checkendon SSPeter&Paul southeast.jpg
Dialing code: 01491

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Commons category: Checkendon
postal code: RG8
OS grid reference: SU6683
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Checkendon is a village and civil parish about west of Henley-on-Thames in South Oxfordshire and about north west of Reading in Berkshire on a mid-height swathe of the Chilterns.

==History== The parish records exist from the 7th century. The village is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Cecadene (Old English for "Ceaca's hill or hill-pasture"). The parish covers about and lies between and above sea level. After World War II Checkendon hosted a National Assistance Board camp for Polish war refugees displaced from Middle East and Africa. The camp, located on the outskirts of Checkendon, was opened in 1948 and offered accommodation in Nissen huts. It was closed in the early 1960s.