East Challow
East Challow is a village and civil parish about 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Wantage in the Vale of White Horse, England.[2] The civil parish was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred the Vale of White Horse to Oxfordshire.The place-name Challow is first attested in a charter from 947 (though the earliest surviving copy of the charter is from the 12th century), in the Old English phrase "to Ceawan Hlewe", which can be translated as "to Ceawa's burial mound",[3] where Ceawa is a personal name attested only here and in the place-name Chawridge.[7] St. Nicolas' has two bells,[2] which are not dated, but the smaller was cast by Robert Wells of Aldbourne, Wiltshire,[8] which makes it very likely to be 18th-century.The Wilts & Berks Canal was built east–west across the parish and opened in 1810, to convey Somerset coal through Wiltshire and Berkshire to the Thames.
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