page_title: East Hendred
section_title: Arches Manor
hierarchical_section_title: East Hendred / Manors / Arches Manor
caption_attribution_description: English: Armorials of Arches family of Arches Manor, East Hendred, Berkshire and of another branch at Waddesdon (Eythrope and Cranwell manors) and Little Kimble, Bucks. Gules, three arches argent. These arms were later quartered by the Dinham family (Barons Dinham), heirs of the Arches of Eythrope, and by the Bourchier family (Earls of Bath), heirs of the Dinhams. Visible quartered by Dinham in stained glass in Bampton Church, Devon; sculpted quartered by Bourchier in stone on Tudor gatehouse of Tawstock Court, Devon (d.1501); on the monumental brass of Edith Dinham, sister of the last Lord Dinham, Christ's College Chapel, Cambridge; In the Duke of Bedford's family chapel at Chenies, Bucks., quartered on the monument to Lady Frances Bourchier (1587-1612) (See Heraldry of the Bedford Chapel, [www.middlesex-heraldry.org.uk])
context_page_description: East Hendred is a village and civil parish about 4 miles east of Wantage in the Vale of White Horse and a similar distance west of Didcot. The village is on East Hendred Brook, which flows from the Berkshire Downs to join the River Thames at Sutton Courtenay. East Hendred was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire.
  The westernmost parts of the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus are in the parish. The Ridgeway and Icknield Way pass through the parish.
  It was awarded the most well connected village in Britain last year because of its connections with the well connected railway station in Didcot, the M4, and the local cities/towns of Oxford/Newbury/Reading. Champs Chapel Museum of East Hendred is a small museum in a former 15th century wayside chapel.
context_section_description: The Heraldic visitation of Berkshire gives the descent of the Arches family,
  originally D'Arches, Latinised to de Arcubus. William Arches married Amyce Turberville, daughter and heiress of Richard Turberville esquire of East Hendred. His son was William Arches, followed by John Arches whose son Rawlin Arches left a daughter and heir Maud Arches. Maud married John Stowe of Burforde, Oxfordshire, and left a daughter and heiress Isabell Stowe, who married John Eyston, thus bringing the manor of Arches into that family.
  John Arches (d. circa 1405) of Arches was elected four-times as MP for Berkshire, in 1384, 1390, 1402 and 1404. The feudal overlord of his lands at East Hendred was the Duke of Lancaster From 1394 he held the office of alnager of Berkshire, and later of Oxfordshire also and served as bailiff of the liberty of the Bishopric of Winchester in the counties of Berkshire and Oxfordshire. He left at least two sons, Ralph Arches (born circa 1378) and Richard Arches, who attended New College, Oxford, Bishop of Winchester Wykeham's new foundation.
  Another branch of the Arches family, bearing the same canting armorials of Gules, three arches argent, had been established in Buckinghamshire since at the latest 1309, and held the  manors of Little Kimble, and in the parish of Waddesdon the manors of Eythrope and Cranwell. Richard Arches (d.1417) of Eythrope, was MP for Buckinghamshire in 1402. His eventual heir was John Dinham, 1st Baron Dinham (1433-1501), the son of his daughter and heiress Joan Arches.
caption: Canting arms of Arches of Arches, East Hendred, Berkshire and of Arches of Eythrope and Cranwell (in Waddesdon) and Little Kimble, Buckinghamshire: Gules, three arches argent
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