Ogbourne St. George

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Ogbourne Saint George is a village in the Kennet district of Wiltshire. About 500 people live in the village. There is a local school which is fed by the villages of Ogbourne St. George , Ogbourne St. Andrew, Ogbourne Maizey ,Rockley and occasional pupils from Marlborough. In the village, there is a hotel and an inn.

There is an Anglican church in the village, which is run by the Reverend Roger Powell, as are the churches in nearby Chiseldon and Ogbourne St. Andrew. The church has a ring of five bells rung most Thursdays and Sundays, with an 18 hundred weight tenor tuned to E-flat. The chuch itself is built on the site of the Ogbourne Prior, which managed all the estates in England for the Abbey of Bec-Hellouin in Normandy for two hundred years.

From 1881 to 1961, Ogbourne had a railway station on the Midland and South Western Junction Railway between Swindon and Marlborough. The line has now been obliterated in the Ogbourne St George district by the realignment of the A346 road.

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• Parklands Hotel
• The Inn with the Well
• The Sanctuary
• The local school
• Parish Council
• Information on Ogbourne