Catmore

Catmore is a civil parish and village in West Berkshire about 5+1⁄2 miles (9 km) southeast of Wantage.

[1] In the 2011 Census the Office for National Statistics did not publish Catmore's population separately, but combined it with the neighbouring civil parish of Farnborough.

[citation needed] The earliest known records of it are from 916 and 931 in the Cartularium Saxonicum, where it appears as Catmere, Catmeringa and Catmæringa.

[5] The Domesday Book of 1086 records that what was left of the manor was held by the Norman baron Henry de Ferrers.

In 1267 Edward III created Edmund Crouchback 1st Earl of Lancaster and granted him many of the de Ferrers estates, including those of the Honour of Tutbury.

[5][7] By 1850 the building had been heavily restored and numerous Norman Revival features more ornate than the original work had been added.

[8] The Diocese of Oxford declared it redundant on 1 December 1973 and is vested in the Churches Conservation Trust on 13 April 1999.

St Margaret's parish church seen from the southeast