Checkendon is a village and civil parish about 6 miles west of Henley-on-Thames in South Oxfordshire and about 9 miles north west of Reading in Berkshire on a mid-height swathe of the Chilterns. The parish records exist from the 7th century. The village is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Cecadene. The parish covers about 1,500 hectares and lies betw…
Checkendon is a village and civil parish about 6 miles west of Henley-on-Thames in South Oxfordshire and about 9 miles north west of Reading in Berkshire on a mid-height swathe of the Chilterns. The parish records exist from the 7th century. The village is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Cecadene. The parish covers about 1,500 hectares and lies between 150 metres and 170 metres above sea level. After World War II Checkendon hosted a National Assistance Board camp for Polish war refugees displaced from Middle East and Africa. The camp, located on the outskirts of Checkendon, was opened in 1948 and offered accommodation in Nissen huts. It was closed in the early 1960s.
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