oare

plural oares

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of oar.

1. A place in England:
   1. A small village in Chieveley parish, West Berkshire district, Berkshire (OS grid ref SU5074).
   2. A village and civil parish by Oare Creek in Swale district, Kent; Oare Marshes are also here (OS grid ref TR0062).
   3. A small village and civil parish (without a council) in Somerset, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district; Oare Water is a minor river flowing through the village and parish (OS grid ref SS8047).

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      There is a local rhyme which says: Culbone, Oare and Stoke Pero Are three such places as you seldom hear o'. Stoke Pero and Culbone are equally remote hamlets, respectively 5 miles south-east and 2½ miles east of Oare, a village of which few would have heard had not Blackmore [(R. D. Blackmore)] immortalised it.

      1980, AA Book of English Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 302

   4. A village in Wilcot, Huish and Oare parish, north of Pewsey, Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU1563).