Welford and Wickham

Welford is a village and parish in south-west Berkshire, in the valley of the river Lambourn, six miles north-west of Newbury on the road to Lambourn.  The parish stretches more than five miles from north to south, bounded at its southern tip by the London to Penzance railway line. Bisected by the rivers Lambourn and Kennet, and the Kennet and Avon Canal, the parish is also crossed by the M4, the A4 and the B4000 (the Roman road known as Ermin Street). The parish consists of six separate settlements: Welford (the largest, and which has the church), Wickham (separated from Welford village by the M4, and which has a chapel, the school, the village hall and one of the pubs), Easton, Weston, Hoe Benham and Halfway. From the late 1890s the village was served by the Lambourn Valley Railway. Welford had its own station until 1960, when the line closed to passengers and regular freight, although a spur to RAF Welford continued to…

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Wasing

Wasing is a small village and civil parish in West Berkshire, dominated by the 4,000-acre Wasing estate which spills over adjoining parishes

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Wantage

Wantage is a market town and civil parish in the Vale of the White Horse, as well as being a former Berkshire hundred.

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Upton

Upton is a small village on the Streatley to Wantage road, formerly a chapelry of Blewbury, and was in Berkshire until 1974

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Uffington

Uffington, named for Uffa/Offa, king of Mercia and Wessex is large village and civil parish in the Vale of the White Horse

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Tilehurst

Tilehurst is not mentioned in the Domesday Book but it appears there has been a settlement in the area for about 900 years. 

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Thatcham

Thatcham, 3 miles east of Newbury is crossed by The Great Bath Road, the Great Western railway, the River Kennet and the Kennet and Avon Canal

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Stanford Dingley

Stanford Dingley is a village and parish in the valley of the river Pang, between Reading and Newbury, in the North Wessex Downs AONB

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Speen and Stockcross

The parish of Speen lies mainly on the ridge dividing the valleys of the rivers Kennet and Lambourn, to the north-west of Newbury

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Sparsholt

Sparsholt, a downland village and civil parish four miles west of Wantage, formerly included the hamlets of Westcot, Kingston Lisle and Fawler

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South Moreton

South Moreton is a village and civil parish about 3 miles east of Didcot and 4miles west of Wallingford, and was part of Berkshire until 1974

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Shaw-cum-Donnington

The parish of Shaw-cum-Donnington is a combination of two townships, Shaw and Donnington, on the northern boundary of Newbury

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