West Hendred is a village and civil parish about 3 miles (5 km) east of Wantage.

West Hendred is downland village, its parish stretching from the Ridgeway in the south through the spring line and meadows to the former marshland of the Oxfordshire plain in the north.

Both of the hamlets have populations less than 30, although records from the 1881 and 1901 censuses show that they were more extensive with several occupied farms up to the Downs.

The earliest reference to West Hendred is the granting of several hides of land to thegn Brihtric by Eadwig in 955 and by Edgar the Peaceful in 964 to Abingdon Abbey[3] In 1538 Corpus Christi College, Oxford became the Lord of the Manor.

[citation needed] West Hendred has a public house, The Hare,[4] on the main A417 road to Wantage.