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Oare
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oare ôare
English
Proper noun
en place cc/England:
en small village par/Chieveley dist/West Berkshire co/Berkshire OS grid ref SU5074.
en village/and/cpar by Oare Creek in dist/Swale co/Kent; Oare Marshes are also here OS grid ref TR0062. Parish map (Kent)
en small village/and/cpar (without a council) in co/Somerset previously in dist/Somerset West and Taunton; Oare Water is a minor river flowing through the village and parish OS grid ref SS8047. Parish map (Somerset)
en 1980 AA Book of English Villages Drive Publications Ltd 302 There is a local rhyme which says:Culbone, Oare and Stoke PeroAre 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.
en village par/Wilcot, Huish and Oare north of x/Pewsey co/Wiltshire OS grid ref SU1563.
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