Popeswood

Coordinates: 51°25′17″N 0°47′02″W / 51.421437°N 0.783802°W / 51.421437; -0.783802
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Popeswood
Newbold College
Popeswood is located in Berkshire
Popeswood
Popeswood
Location within Berkshire
OS grid referenceSU846695
Civil parish
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBRACKNELL
Postcode districtRG42
Dialling code01344
PoliceThames Valley
FireRoyal Berkshire
AmbulanceSouth Central
UK Parliament
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Berkshire
51°25′17″N 0°47′02″W / 51.421437°N 0.783802°W / 51.421437; -0.783802

Popeswood is a village in Berkshire, England, near Bracknell. The village is within the civil parish of Binfield approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of Bracknell. The main part of Popeswood lies north of the B3408 west of Temple Park and south of Binfield village, with a smaller section south of the B3408 between Amen Corner and Farley Wood.[1]

Amenities

Along London Road, the B3408, there are a post office, a garage and a number of small businesses.

Parks

Nearby Pope's Meadow is a countryside park that offers recreational facilities with open grassland, ponds, copse and veteran oak trees.[2]

Newbold College

Binfield is home to

Memorial Hall
.

St Mark's Church was built in 1867 and is a Grade II listed building.[3]

Alexander Pope at Popeswood

Popeswood is named after the family of the poet

Mary II became joint monarchs in 1689, Catholics were expelled from the City of London. The Popes moved up river to Hammersmith, but in 1700 they relocated Popeswood in Binfield. There, the principal manor house, Binfield Manor, was held by the Catholic Dancastle family. The village was also only seven miles across the heath from Hall Grove, Bagshot, in Surrey
. This was the home of Magdalen Rackett, Mr Pope's daughter by his first wife.

It was through Magdalen's husband Charles Rackett that Pope had been able, in 1698, to purchase Whitehill House, a small manor house in fourteen acres of land in

Catholics, she showed no compromise to Catholics in general. In 1706 she made it a treasonable offence to convert anyone to Catholicism. She ordered the enforcement of the laws against Catholics and had a census made of the Number of Papists in every Parish
, with their Qualities, Estates and Places of Abode.

The

Windsor Forest. Whitehill House, his parents' home, had been sold and a few weeks later they moved to Twickenham
. Where Popes House still stands to this day.

References

  1. ^ "Binfield Popeswood Study Area" (PDF). Bracknell Forest Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 20 October 2012.
  2. ^ "Pope's Meadow Leaflet" (PDF). Bracknell Forest Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 March 2016. Retrieved 21 October 2012.
  3. ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1390289)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
  4. ISBN 9781905191017
    .
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