CHARNEY, a chapelry in that part of the parish of
LONGWORTH which is in the hundred of GANFIELD,
county of BERKS, 4 miles (N. by W.) from Wantage,
containing 243 inhabitants. The chapel is dedicated to
St. Peter. In the vicinity is a circular fortification, called
Cherbury Castle, surrounded by a double trench, resembling
that of Badbury in Dorsetshire, and traditionally
said to have been a castle belonging to Canute the Great.