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It is probable that there have been settlements in the parish of Childrey for 3,000 years, but the first evidence of occupation near the village is in Roman times. This was followed by a Saxon settlement and the name Childrey has Saxon origins. A potted history of events in the village and how they relate to the wider events in the country as a whole are listed in the table below.
You can find a full history of the village in the book, Childrey: a village in the Vale of White Horse, written by June Maxwell Drummond in 1989 and updated in 2003 by a group of villagers. (see Village Book). There are some excellent pictures of the Villages taken around a hundred years ago on the English Heritage Web Site. Click here
There is also an excellent history source here
History of Childrey Timeline
| Date | National events | Childrey events | Date |
| Childrey given to Cilla | 632 | ||
| Bequest to Childrey Church | 995 | ||
| 1086 | Domesday Book compiled | ||
| Present Church building started | 1207 | ||
| Transepts added to Church | 1325 | ||
| Frethorne chantry consecrated | 1325 | ||
| 1348–9 | The Black Death | ||
| Fynderne brass | 1444 | ||
| Wm Fettyplace moved to Rampanes Manor | 1480 | ||
| 1509 | Accession of Henry VIII | Fettyplace School opened | 1515 |
| Muster Roll compiled | 1522 | ||
| Fettyplace chantry consecrated | 1526 | ||
| Death of Wm Fettyplace | 1528 | ||
| First almsmen appointed | 1528 | ||
| 1536-9 | Dissolution of monasteries | ||
| 1547 | Accession of Edward VI | ||
| 1547 | Chantries abolished | ||
| 1553 | Accession of Mary Tudor | ||
| 1558 | Accession of Elizabeth I | Church Registers start in Childrey | 1558 |
| 1601 | Poor Law Act | Corpus Christi College buys advowson | 1607 |
| 1625 | Accession of Charles I | Subsidy Roll | 1628 |
| 1642 | Civil War started | ||
| 1644 | King’s Council at Oxford | Charles I spent a night in Childrey | 1644 |
| Cedar of Lebanon planted at Rectory | 1646 | ||
| 1649 | King surrenders | ||
| 1649-61 | Commonwealth | King’s arms erected in Church | 1661 |
| 1665 | Plague | ||
| 1666 | Fire of London | Quaker Meeting at Penn House | 1673-5 |
| 1678 | St Paul’s rebuilt | ||
| The Crown’ opened for business | 1708 | ||
| New Boys School built | 1732 | ||
| Smallpox epidemic | 1741 | ||
| 1761 | Rocque’s map of Berkshire | ||
| Church Clock installed | 1763 | ||
| 1772 | Inclosure Act passed | Inclosure Award allotments made | 1775 |
| Wantage-Faringdon turnpike opened | 1792 | ||
| 1795-1815 | Napoleonic Wars | Small pox epidemic | 1802 |
| First Methodist service | 1809 | ||
| Canal opened | 1810 | ||
| 1835 | Accession of Queen Victoria | Railway station opened | 1840 |
| 1841 | First detailed Census | Girls School built | 1840 |
| Methodist Chapel dedicated | 1849 | ||
| Methodist School opened | 1855 | ||
| Primitive Methodist Chapel built | 1857 | ||
| Almshouses rebu8ilt by Queens’ College | 1867 | ||
| 1870 | Forster’s Education Act | First Parish Council meeting | 1894 |
| 1897 | Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee | Reading Room built | 1896 |
| Coventry Almshouses built | 1912 | ||
| Schools moved to West Street | 1913 | ||
| 1914-18 | World War I | War Memorial erected | 1920 |
| Methodists united | 1934 | ||
| 1939-45 | World War II | Evacuees arrived | 1939 |
| 1952 | Accession of Queen Elizabeth II | ||
| ‘Childrey: a village in the Vale of White Horse’ written by June Maxwell Drummond first published | 1989 | ||
| 2000 | New Millennium celebrations | Childrey school extended | 2000 |
| Childrey War Memorial re-dedicationChildrey Millennium sign erected | 2001 | ||
| 2002 | Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee | Childrey Jubilee celebrations | 2002 |
| Childrey book republished | 2003 | ||
| Church bells repaired and increased from 6 to 8 bell tower and roof repaired – new steel work put in to support the extra bells | 2005 | ||
| Pond renovated and replanted | 2006 | ||
| Further, major roof repairs due to be carried out | 2007 |
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