Childrey
Sign in to saveChildrey is a village and civil parish about west of Wantage in the Vale of White Horse. The parish was part of the Wantage Rural District in Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred the Vale of White Horse to Oxfordshire. The 2021 Census recorded the parish population as 527.
Key facts
- UK place.official_name
- Childrey
- UK place.static_image_name
- St Mary Childrey Geograph-2570712-by-Brian-Robert-Marshall.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Parish church of St Mary the Virgin
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SU3687
- UK place.label_position
- top
- UK place.population
- 527
- UK place.population_ref
- (2021 Census)
- UK place.civil_parish
- Childrey
- UK place.shire_district
- Vale of White Horse
- UK place.shire_county
- Oxfordshire
- UK place.region
- South East England
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.post_town
- Wantage
- UK place.postcode_district
- OX12
- UK place.postcode_area
- OX
- UK place.dial_code
- 01235
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Didcot and Wantage
- UK place.website
- Childrey
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- village
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Vale of White Horse
- Population
- +582
- Shares border with
- Stanford in the Vale
- Official website
- www.childrey.org.uk
- Image
- St Mary Childrey Geograph-2570712-by-Brian-Robert-Marshall.jpg
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- Frethornes
- Mautravers
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- Churches
- Church of England
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- Economic and social history
- Clockmaker
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Childrey is a village and civil parish about west of Wantage in the Vale of White Horse. The parish was part of the Wantage Rural District in Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred the Vale of White Horse to Oxfordshire. The 2021 Census recorded the parish population as 527.
==Geography== Childrey is a spring line settlement on the escarpment of the Berkshire Downs. The parish measures just over north – south but less than east – west at its widest point. Its highest point is a chalk hill on The Ridgeway about south of the village, which is at least high. In 1924 the parish covered an area of just over . Childrey village is on the B4001 road, which joins the A417 road about to the north. The B4507 road passes east – west through the parish just south of the village, and forms a crossroads with the B4001.