Claim: The village of Church Hanborough has a church dating to the 1100s, a national school that was built in 1832, and a public house controlled by Charles Wells Brewery.
Evidence: The Church of England parish church of Saints Peter and Paul was built before 1130, when Henry I granted its advowson to Reading Abbey, which he had founded nine years earlier. A national school near the church was built in 1832 and enlarged in 1872. Church Hanborough has one public house, the Hand and Shears, that is controlled by Charles Wells Brewery.