Padworth

Coordinates: 51°23′35″N 1°06′50″W / 51.393°N 1.114°W / 51.393; -1.114
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Padworth
2011 census)[1]
• Density161/km2 (420/sq mi)
OS grid referenceSU619661
Civil parish
  • Padworth
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townREADING
Postcode districtRG7
Dialling code0118
PoliceThames Valley
FireRoyal Berkshire
AmbulanceSouth Central
UK Parliament
Websitehttp://www.padworthparishcouncil.gov.uk/
List of places
UK
England
Berkshire
51°23′35″N 1°06′50″W / 51.393°N 1.114°W / 51.393; -1.114

Padworth is a

railway station. It has its southern boundary with Mortimer West End, Hampshire. The south of the parish is wooded towards its edges and the north of the parish is agricultural with a hotel beside the Kennet and Avon Canal. In the centre of the parish is a school, Padworth College, which is Georgian and a later incarnation of its manor house
.

Geography and amenities

Padworth is built around the Norman church and the manor house, which from 1748 was the home of the Darby-Griffith family but in the 20th century was converted into Padworth College, an independent co-educational day and boarding school for students aged 13–19. The two halves of the parish can be separated thus:

  • Lower Padworth or Aldermaston Wharf, is mostly concentrated along the A4 Bath Road – this area has the vast majority of homes. It is a built-up nucleated village and low rise locality.
  • Padworth Common sometimes describes all of the scattered south but strictly speaking only includes land outside of the farmland of the former manor centred on the site of Padworth College.
Riding horses at Padworth College's Riding School at Home Farm.

Economy

Economic history

A '

Scheduled Monument fish-pond north of the former manor house. In 1870 its property was valued at £1,839 (equivalent to £222,258 in 2023 in general expenditure) while its population was much smaller than today, 298, living in 59 houses.[2]

Current economy

The whole parish is noted by the 1920s to be very well watered, and the north-eastern part draws on the natural advantage of a fairly flat landscape and water close to the surface from the River Kennet. The soil retains a strength from its inorganic layers being gravel and the subsoil impermeable clay.[3] The local economy in the 1920s centred on the chief crops: wheat, barley, oats and root vegetables.[3] These remain regular crops in Padworth alongside hay meadows for livestock, horses and donkeys.

Gravel is extracted from land close to the Kennet in Padworth

Gravel extraction, education, agriculture, transport and tourism all provide jobs in Padworth itself. Aldermaston railway station at Aldermaston Wharf serves two of these sectors. Commuting to towns, industrial, logistic and trading business centres is the most common source of employment as at the 2011 census, with for instance Reading and Newbury about 20–30 minutes away whether by rail or by access to the M4 motorway.[1]
Tadley, the nearest town, also provides a major source of retail, leisure and general high street service employment.

History

Feet of Fines (on property sale) as Peadanwurthe (10th century); Peteorde (11th century); Pedewurth (12th century); Padewrd, Padworze (13th century); Padesworth, Pappeworth (14th century).[3]

Manors

A full descent of the manor, including its earliest known grant of 956 and during the

Saxon era owner was recorded as 'Ælfstan', with its nominal dues going to Edward the Confessor
.

The period of titled bearers owning either manor was when the main manor was held by the

Adamesque capitals on the floor above.[4]

Other land

Beenham and Padworth Inclosures Act 1811
Act of Parliament
51 Geo. 3. c. cxlii
Dates
Royal assent31 May 1811
Text of statute as originally enacted

Place names that were here in the 17th century are: Ball's Pidle, Yew Pidle, Pondes Close, Little and Great Burfeildes, Culmers Wood and Bartholomew's, Brickworth Coppice.

51 Geo. 3. c. cxlii) of 1811 under the established limited compensatory procedures of the time.[3]

Church

The

St John the Baptist, is aisleless and built about 1130 with two three-light Tudor styled ornately carved windows, and with its vestry and porch having been added in 1890. A smaller Tudor window, with two lights on the south-east square tower façade, above the font, which does not have the entrance. The roof of the nave was largely replaced in the 19th century.[3] Rare features include the Norman chancel arch and north and south doorways, the semi-domed apse and the 18th-century monuments.[5] It is Grade I listed building.[6]

The church's

church schools
.

Demography

Land use statistics are not available for this civil parish. These figures under the census heading 'Physical Environment' can be obtained for the broader

ward of 'Stratfield Mortimer' from the data pages of the last census from the 2005 Office for National Statistics survey.[1]

2011 Published Statistics: Population, home ownership and area[1]
Output area Homes owned outright Owned with a loan Socially rented Privately rented Other Usual residents km²
Civil parish 88 130 68 40 8 919 5.71

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d Key Statistics: Dwellings; Quick Statistics: Population Density; Physical Environment: Land Use Survey 2005 Accessed 10 December 2014.
  2. ^ Imperial Gazetteer of Great Britain (1870–72, London) John Marius Wilson from visionofbritain.org.uk – University of Portsmouth and others. Accessed 10 December 2014
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i 'Parishes: Padworth', in A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 3 ed. P H Ditchfield and William Page (London, 1923), pp. 413–417. Accessed 10 December 2014.
  4. ^ a b Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1117314)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 10 December 2014. Padworth College (former manor house). Citing:
    BOE, Berkshire, p. 191; Berkshire Architectural Guide, Betjeman, John and Piper, John;
    Country Life, Vol. 52, pp. 342–348, 372–378, 414–417
  5. ^ Betjeman, John, ed. (1968) Collins Pocket Guide to English Parish Churches; the South. London: Collins; p. 114
  6. ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1155386)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
  7. ^ 'Padfield' A Topographical Dictionary of England, ed. Samuel Lewis (publisher) (London, 1848), pp. 525–530. Accessed 10 December 2014.

External links

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