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It is believed that there have been settlements at Goring for thousands of years, certainly it was an important junction in Roman times, when the Icknield Way met the Ridgeway at the point where the Thames could be forged at Goring. Transport has always been a feature of Goring, which has the only bridge across the Thames between Wallingford and Pangbourne. The bridge was built in 1847, soon after the Great Western Railway came to Goring, which lies on the main line from Paddington to the west of England. Goring is the site of two locks for navigation of the river Thames, the first at Goring itself and the other a little way north at Cleeve.
Goring lies in what is now known as "The Goring Gap", with Goring on one side of the river Thames, and Streatley on the other. Goring lies in "The Chiltern Hundreds" in Oxfordshire. Streatley is in Berkshire. Gatehampton manor dates back to 1086 a.d., and Applehanger Manor (now known as Beech Farm) was the home of John atte Beche and Elizabeth Loveday. There is a memorial brass to Elizabeth in the Norman Church of St. Thomas of Canterbury, which dates back to the twelfth century.
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