HANNEY (WEST), a parish comprising the chapelry of Lyford, in the hundred of OCK, and the township of East Hanney, chiefly in the hundred of WANTAGE, county of BERKS, 3 miles (N. by E.) from Wantage, containing 1107 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Berks, and diocese of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £22. 12. 6., and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Salisbury. The church, dedicated to St. James, is principally of Norman architecture. The river Ock, on which a silkthrowing mill has been erected, runs through the parish. Richard Belcher, in 1713, bequeathed a trifling sum for teaching children, and providing bread for the poor. At Lyford there is a chapel of ease; also an almshouse, founded in 1611 by Oliver Aschcombe Esq., for ten aged persons, elected from amongst the parishioners.