Beedon

Beedon is a village and civil parish about 6+1⁄2 miles (10.5 km) north of Newbury in West Berkshire, England.

Beedon
Saint Nicholas Church
Beedon is located in Berkshire
Beedon
Beedon
Location within Berkshire
Area8.05 km2 (3.11 sq mi)
Population459 (2011 census)[1]
• Density57/km2 (150/sq mi)
OS grid referenceSU4878
Civil parish
  • Beedon
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townNewbury
Postcode districtRG20
Dialling code01635
PoliceThames Valley
FireRoyal Berkshire
AmbulanceSouth Central
UK Parliament

Geography

The village has outlying farmhouses, surrounded by farmland and hedgerows, and is otherwise clustered around the old A34 Oxford Road, now unclassified, which runs through the village, parallel to the modern A34, with the latter acting as a bypass. The other village street, Stanmore Road, heads north west from Oxford Road, and has the parish church and village school.

Beedon Common

Beedon Common is a hamlet and former common in Beedon.[2][3] The settlement lies close to the A34 road, and is located approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Newbury.

History

Beedon is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as a property of Abingdon Abbey, with Walter de Rivers as the tenant. It passed by inheritance to the de Lisle and later the Roos family. After the manor reverted to the Crown, it was awarded to the Reade family in 1615. In 1857 Sir John Chandos Reade sold the manor to Lewis Loyd, whose son Samuel became Baron Overstone. The manor was then inherited by Overstone's daughter, Harriet Loyd-Lindsay, Baroness Wantage.[4]

There was a RAF decoy airfield opened to the west of the town during World War II and its role was to deflect the bombing of real airfields. It was parented by nearby RAF Harwell, in Oxfordshire.

Natural conservation areas

Beedon has a site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) just to the north-east of the village, called Ashridge Wood.[5]

Demography
2011 Published Statistics: Population, home ownership and extracts from Physical Environment, surveyed in 2005[1]
Output areaHomes owned outrightOwned with a loanSocially rentedPrivately rentedOtherkm2 roadskm2 waterkm2 domestic gardensUsual residentskm2
Civil parish5147483340.070.00070.14598.05

Amenities

Transport

Beedon is served by Newbury and District bus services 6 and 6A from Newbury.[6]

Notable buildings

Manor house

Beedon manor house was built in 1553 but mostly dates from the early in the 18th century.[7]

Parish church

The Church of England parish church of Saint Nicholas is a Grade I listed building[8] built in about 1220.[4]

See also

References
  1. "Key Statistics: Dwellings; Quick Statistics: Population Density; Physical Environment: Land Use Survey 2005". Archived from the original on 11 February 2003. Retrieved 25 July 2010.
  2. Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 174 Newbury & Wantage (Hungerford & Didcot) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2014. ISBN 9780319228739.
  3. "Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer" (csv (download)). www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Ordnance Survey. 1 January 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
  4. Page, William; Ditchfield, P.H., eds. (1924). Victoria County History: A History of the County of Berkshire, Volume 4. pp. 40–43.
  5. "Magic Map Application". Magic.defra.gov.uk. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  6. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 August 2013. Retrieved 11 March 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. Pevsner, Nikolaus (1966). The Buildings of England: Berkshire. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 85.
  8. Historic England (24 November 1966). "Church of Saint Nicholas (Grade I) (1136040)". National Heritage List for England.

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