West Challow
West Challow was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred the Vale of White Horse to Oxfordshire.[1] The place-name Challow is first attested in a charter of 947 (though the earliest surviving copy of the charter is twelfth-century) in the Old English phrase "to Ceawan Hlewe", which can straightforwardly be translated as "to Ceawa's burial mound",[2] where Ceawa is a personal name attested only here and in the place-name Chawridge.[6] The course of the former Wilts & Berks Canal passes through the parish, skirting the south side of the village.The Manor of Challow was granted by King Henry I to Robert Achard between 1107 and 1118, and passed later to Sir William Forster who held it in the early 17th century.Manor Farm is a Grade II* listed Queen Anne building with much older inclusions.