GORING, a parish in the hundred of LANGTREE,
county of OXFORD, 6 miles (S. by W.) from Wallingford,
containing 867 inhabitants. The living is a perr
petual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford,
endowed with £600 private benefaction, £200
royal bounty, and £ 1200 parliamentary grant. S. Gardener,
Esq. was patron in 1822. The church is dedicated
to St. Thomas a Backet. There is a place of worship
for Independents. Henry Alnutt, Esq., in 1724,
bequeathed an estate in trust, among other purposes,
for apprenticing children of the parishes of Goring,
Cassington, Checkendon, Ipstone, and Southstoke: the
income is about £450 a year, for which they are
educated, partly clothed, and apprenticed. The Iknield
street here crosses the Thames into Berkshire. A
priory of nuns of the order of St. Augustine was
founded in the reign of Henry II., and dedicated to
the Blessed Virgin Mary, the revenue of which at the
dissolution was valued at £60. 5. 6.