Sulhamstead

Coordinates: 51°24′47″N 1°05′24″W / 51.413°N 1.090°W / 51.413; -1.090
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Sulhamstead
2011 census)[1]
• Density208/km2 (540/sq mi)
OS grid referenceSU6369
Civil parish
  • Sulhamstead
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townREADING
Postcode districtRG7
Dialling code0118
PoliceThames Valley
FireRoyal Berkshire
AmbulanceSouth Central
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Berkshire
51°24′47″N 1°05′24″W / 51.413°N 1.090°W / 51.413; -1.090

Sulhamstead is a village and

Kennet & Avon Canal
.

Geography

1888 Ordnance Survey Parish Boundary Map
Narrow boat (named Toad) emerging from lock with black gates and white ends of the gate arms. Around the lock is a grassy area.
Tyle Mill Lock
Church of St Mary
The 'White House' at Sulhamstead where the Thames Valley Police Museum is housed.

Sulhamstead's immediate neighbours toward its northern border, the

meadows by the River Kennet and the A4 Road. Three further developed points are Sulhamstead Abbots, Whitehouse Green and Sulhamstead Bannister. Finally, Burghfield Common village is in the far south, which is in the remainder of the parish of Burghfield
.

Sulhamstead

medieval
period.

History

A

manorial estate of Grazeley was advertised for sale, it was inclosed in a ring fence and apparently included the whole tithing.[2]

Between 2013 and 2015, 8 gold coins from a single treasure hoard were discovered at an undisclosed location near Sulhamstead. The coins are estimated as having been buried between 20 and 30 BC. Six of these coins are quarter staters, similar to some others found in Berkshire and Wiltshire. The remaining two are believed to have originated from North West France. As of 2019, the coins are on display in the West Berkshire Museum, and will continue to be displayed in the museum's 'Hoards' exhibition throughout 2019.[3][4] On 15 August 2019, Sulhamstead was the location of the killing of Andrew Harper, a police officer of the Thames Valley Police Roads Policing Unit, who was responding to reports of a local burglary.[5]

Landmarks

Sulhamstead House

Sulhamstead House, commonly known as the White House, was the

brewer, Charles May, in 1744, becoming the home to his sister's descendants, the Thoyts family. The house was largely rebuilt in 1800 for William Thoyts, the High Sheriff of Berkshire. It was the childhood home of his great granddaughter, Berkshire historian and palaeographer, Emma Elizabeth Thoyts (1860–1949).[citation needed] Its refurbishment was paid for in 1910 by William G Watson, who was created a baronet of Sulhamstead). The baronetcy is extinct. In 1949, the house became the headquarters of the Berkshire Constabulary. Since their merger into Thames Valley Police, it has functioned as that force's training centre and museum. It is a Grade II listed building.[6] The Sulhamstead estate is owned by the Astor family.[7]

Folly Farm

This was built around a small timber-framed

Grade I listed building, as it is an exceptional example of Arts and Craft architecture.[citation needed
]

Other buildings

The church of

lock and swing bridge. The singer-songwriter Kate Bush
lived in a large canalside home for several years until 2004.

Omer's Gully

Omer's

Copse
, which lies to the north east and is part of a larger natural woodland covered habitat.

Notable people

  • Florence Nagle (1894–1988), racehorse and dog breeder.
  • Kate Bush (b.1958), singer-songwriter, lived in Sulhamstead from the 1990s to 2004.
  • Keith Floyd (1943–2009), chef and restaurateur, born in Sulhamstead.

Demography

2011 Published Statistics: Population, home ownership and extracts from Physical Environment, surveyed in 2005[1]
Output area Homes owned outright Owned with a loan Socially rented Privately rented Other km2 roads km2 water km2 domestic gardens Usual residents km2
Civil parish 134 210 144 73 14 0.193 0.221 0.299 1471 7.08

Notes

  1. ^ With a short, half-width south-west projection, west of Burghfield.

References

  1. ^ a b Key Statistics: Dwellings; Quick Statistics: Population Density; Physical Environment: Land Use Survey 2005
  2. ^ a b 'Parishes: Sulhamstead Abbots with Grazeley', A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 3 ed. P H Ditchfield and William Page (London, 1923), pp. 306–311
  3. ^ Fort, Linda (12 August 2015). "Treasure hoard found in Sulhamstead by metal detectorist". BerkshireLive.
  4. ^ 'West Berkshire Museum 2019' pp. 6
  5. ^ "Andrew Harper death: Thames Valley Police officer killed in Berkshire". 16 August 2019 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
  6. ^ "Thames Valley Police Training College (Sulhamstead House)". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 16 September 2006.
  7. ^ "The thirty landowners who own half a county". Who owns England?.
  8. ^ "Church of St. Mary". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 16 September 2006.
  9. ^ Friends of Omer's Gully Wood Archived 29 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 16 December 2014.
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