The History of Charney Bassett

The Great War

New Road Farm now Barnfield

Chapel Lane

Auntie Emmie & Bill Clarke 1921 at 25 New Road

The Barn (on the green) of Rectory Farm looking north towards the green. [Sheila Terry]

Robert ‘Bobby’ Woolford – Carriers [Shirley Dore]

The Green from The Smithy

Off for a drive! Maud Ody front passenger

Village Cross [Packer Collection 1920-1940]

Bought and brought from Hanney – Ruth Gerring 2nd from left

St Peter’s Church Doorway Detail

Postcard of Charney, Chequers pub sign, Smithy, and village cross. No date.

Postcard of Charney Church. No date.

No 28 New Road [Shirley Dore]

The Chequers and Smithy

The Horn Inn [Sheila Terry]

Ock Bridge

Pusey Horn

Main St/New Road

Village Green [Henry Taunt 1860-1914]

Cripps and Sons (Vic Hodgkins) Date: c1950 Location: Cornmarket Street, Oxford, Barclays Bank

St Peter’s

Charlie Browning in the Smithy, 1919-1920

Cottages on the green [Shirley Dore]

Children with School in background (right)

Autumn 1937. Haymaking at Charney Bassett.

Helen Mewett by R. Ock, Mill in background

Charlie Browning, his wife Laura and their daughter Ivy outside the Smithy, 1920s

Charney village cross and War Memorial

Primrose Villa and Cottages

Machine gun loop-hole [in Manor garden wall]

Potsherd

Main St/New Road

Straddlestones, Main Street Mid 1920s. Maud Ody far right. Note the single shutter hinging upwards as mentioned in Maud Ody’s book P35.

Charney Manor and Garage from Bridge

Main St, Rectory Farm House on rt [OCL]

St Peter’s Church COLOUR Postcard

Cottage on the Green May 1992

John Whitehorn [tomb in St Peter’s graveyard]

Postcard view of Charney and river and one of the thatched cottages at the entrance to the village to the left of the Church. No date.

Clay Balls [from Mill Cottage]

First motorised vehicle in Charney George Bungay [Ruth Gerring]. Identified as probably a Triumph by the National Motorcycle Museum.

St Peter’s Church

The Granary (since demolished) at Rectory Farm [Sheila Terry]

Postcard of Charney, the village cross. No date.

Longworth Road snow 1976

Village Cross [Sheila Terry]

Primrose Villa and the two thatched cottages [Sheila Terry]

The Chequers [Shirley Dore]

Never Absent Never Late

Off for a drive! Maud Ody centre

No32 New Road

Ock Bridge

Village Cross, Rectory Farm and The Horn sign [Jack Chapman]

Aerial view 1969

Barnfield, Brook Cottage, Byways 1963

Inside the mill

The Chequers, Smithy and Village Cross [Shirley Dore]

Postcard of 14 Charney (Brook Cottage) as the PO and Stores. No date, but this card was sent from Charney to London on 25/08/1930

Mill and house

Charlie Browning, his wife Laura and their daughter Ivy outside the Smithy. 1920s. ‘CJ Browning Shoeing & General Smith’

The Hunt goes through Charney. No Date.

Beside The Chequers [Shirley Dore]

The Smithy

Frances Chapman ‘Stone Room’ Rectory Farm

Rectory Farm

Village cross

No 32 New Road

Home on leave, Vic Hodgkins on Roy’s motorbike 1942/3

Postcard, view of Charney and bridge. No date.

Main St, note power lines and sign (to Post Office?) [Sheila Terry]

Main Street/ New Road junction. Post Card sent 1965.

St Peter’s Church Stained Glass

Post Office and Shop, Tilly Godfrey’s. Amberley Cottage.

A Singer Junior Tourer New Road

The Orchard Rectory Farm, now Orchard Close [Sheila Terry]

The Chequers [Shirley Dore]

Main St looking North. Rectory Farm on right.

New Road (unsealed surface). No 25 left foreground.

The Mill from Lyford Road 1939

St Peter’s Church and the Manor 1939

St Peter’s Church Tympanum

The Manor

Pusey Horn

Louisa & Albert Haines’ wedding 1910

Group outside 30 & 31 New Road

Brook Cottage (No 14) Post Office

Maud Ody – ‘The Length of the Road’

Village Cross and Shop. Colour Postcard.

Sheds at Rectory Farm [Sheila Terry]

Home Farm and the Coxes c1930 Rear – John (1912), Frederick Front – Elizabeth, Bid Ernest (1916), Henry 1914

Rectory Farm

The Bridge on The Bridle Path to Stanford in the Vale

New Road – School on right