Oare

See also: oare and ôare

English

Proper noun

Oare

  1. A place in England:
    1. A small village in Chieveley parish, West Berkshire district, Berkshire (OS grid ref SU5074).
    2. A village and civil parish by Oare Creek in Swale district, Kent; Oare Marshes are also here (OS grid ref TR0062). [1]
    3. A small village and civil parish (without a council) in Somerset, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district; Oare Water is a minor river flowing through the village and parish (OS grid ref SS8047). [2]
      • 1980, AA Book of English Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 302:
        There is a local rhyme which says:
        Culbone, Oare and Stoke Pero
        Are three such places as you seldom hear o'.
        Stoke Pero and Culbone are equally remote hamlets, respectively 5 miles south-east and 2½ miles east of Oare, a village of which few would have heard had not Blackmore [(R. D. Blackmore)] immortalised it.
    4. A village in Wilcot, Huish and Oare parish, north of Pewsey, Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU1563).

References

  1. ^ Parish map (Kent)
  2. ^ Parish map (Somerset)
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