Mongewell Park
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| Mongewell shown within Oxfordshire | |
| OS grid reference | SU611877 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Wallingford |
| Postcode district | OX10 |
| Police | Thames Valley |
| Fire | Oxfordshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
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Mongewell (first syllable rhymes with sponge) is a village in the civil parish of Crowmarsh, about 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Wallingford in Oxfordshire. Mongewell is on the east bank of the Thames, linked with the west bank at Winterbrook by Winterbrook Bridge. The earthwork Grim's Ditch, now part of The Ridgeway long-distance footpath, passes through the northern part of it and is a scheduled ancient monument.
Grim's Ditch to its north has its main section north of the village, a Scheduled Ancient Monument. In order to provide a level climb up to the first major hill of the long Chiltern Hills range to the east and northeast this has embankments and cuttings, with thousands of tonnes of earth displaced in the Bronze Age in order to facilitate access by foot.
Mongewell was a parish mentioned in Domesday Book. The parish church of St John the Baptist dates architecturally to the 12th century, with later repairs and additions.
Mongewell was a strip parish, a thin strip of land extending into the Chiltern Hills including part of Stoke Row.
The ecclesiastical parish was joined by a civil parish in the 19th century, but in 1932 was split, mostly joining a new civil parish naned Crowmarsh, but a small part was added to Rotherfield Greys parish.
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