Gainfield

Gainfield
Gainfield
	Gainfield crossroads, with the Warren on the right of the picture
	Gainfield Location within Oxfordshire
OS grid reference	SU3495
Civil parish	Buckland;
District	Vale of White Horse;
Shire county	Oxfordshire;
Region	South East;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Faringdon
Postcode district	SN7
Dialling code	01367
Police	Thames Valley
Fire	Oxfordshire
Ambulance	South Central
UK Parliament	Witney;
	List of places UK England Oxfordshire 51°39′29″N 1°29′49″W / 51.658°N 1.497°W

Gainfield is a small ribbon development in Buckland civil parish about 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Faringdon in the Vale of the White Horse District of England. It was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire. Buckland is on the B4508 road by the crossroads with the road between Buckland and Charney Bassett, about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of Stanford in the Vale. It is opposite a wood called Buckland Warren. There is a legend, linked with that of nearby Cherbury Camp, that tells of the land being given as a reward to a young shepherd boy who saved the inhabitants of the camp by his vigilance.^[1] Gainfield is a modern settlement, developed in the late 20th century on lands belonging to Gainfield Farm.^[2] Gainfield Farm appears to represent the meeting place of the hundred of Ganfield, one of the ancient hundreds of Berkshire, known to have been in the parish of Buckland.^[3]

References

^ Ford, David Nash (2001). "Gainfield". Royal Berkshire History. Nash Ford Publishing. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
^ There was no settlement here in 1959. "Sheet 158 Oxford and Newbury". Ordnance Survey 1 inch map, 7th edition. 1959. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
^ Page, William; Ditchfield, P H, eds. (1924). "Ganfield hundred: Introduction". Victoria County History. A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 4. p. 452. Retrieved 3 July 2020.

[rbhg-1] Ford, David Nash (2001). "Gainfield". Royal Berkshire History. Nash Ford Publishing. Retrieved 16 October 2011.

[2] There was no settlement here in 1959. "Sheet 158 Oxford and Newbury". Ordnance Survey 1 inch map, 7th edition. 1959. Retrieved 3 July 2020.

[3] Page, William; Ditchfield, P H, eds. (1924). "Ganfield hundred: Introduction". Victoria County History. A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 4. p. 452. Retrieved 3 July 2020.

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