East Challow is a village and civil parish about 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Wantage in the Vale of White Horse, England. The place-name Challow is first attested in a charter from 947 (though the earliest surviving copy of the charter is from the 12th century), in the Old English phrase “to Ceawan Hlewe”, which can be translated as “to Ceawa’s burial mound”, where Ceawa is a personal name attested only here and in the place-name Chawridge.
The name appears as Ceveslane (considered to be a mis-spelling of Ceveslaue) in the Domesday Book of 1086. Thirteenth-century variants included Chaulea, Chaulauhe, Chawelawe and Shawelawe.
The “East” element in the name, added to distinguish East Challow from West Challow, is first found in 1284 (in the form Est Challowe)
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I played in that lane ,from late 50s to early 60s,good memories.
A lot of huffing and puffing …Ancient place goes back to the year 800 as a dwelling and small village before growing East and West. Still a lot of farmland and ancient woodland and some Roman roads no doubt.