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The East Hagbourne village name is derived from Hacca's Brook, a stream that flows through the village. East Hagbourne was sometimes called Church Hagbourne
East and West Hagbourne have been separate villages since the time of Edward the Confessor, when Regenbald, a priest of Cirencester, held the manor of East Hagbourne. Regenbald continued to hold the manor after the Norman conquest of England in 1066 and compilation of the Domesday Book in 1086. Regenbald died in the reign of Henry I, who then granted East Hagbourne manor to the Augustinians Cirencester Abbey (founded 1117). The abbey continued to hold the manor until 1539, when it surrendered its lands to the Crown in the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
A picture postcard village with old cottages and still has its old village cross. The Village Cross or Upper Cross, at the junction of Main Road and Church Close, is a 15th-century stone cross with an 18th-century sundial, on a base of 5 deep stone steps and is Grade II* listed.
Location: 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Didcot and 11 miles (18 km) south of Oxford
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- Landmark