Yattendon

Yattendon
Yattendon
2011 census)
• Density	586/km2 (1,520/sq mi)
OS grid reference	SU5574
Unitary authority	West Berkshire;
Ceremonial county	Berkshire;
Region	South East;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Thatcham
Postcode district	RG18
Dialling code	01635
Police	Thames Valley
Fire	Royal Berkshire
Ambulance	South Central
UK Parliament	Newbury;
	List of places UK England Berkshire 51°28′01″N 1°12′11″W / 51.467°N 1.203°W

Yattendon is a village and civil parish 7 miles (11 km) northeast of Newbury in the county of Berkshire, England. The M4 motorway passes through the fields of the village which lie 0.5 miles (800 m) south and below the elevations of its cluster. The village is privately owned and is "part of the 9,000 acre estate owned by the Iliffes, former press barons", part of the Yattendon Group. ^[2]

Geography

Yattendon stretches from Everington in the west to the

Dissolution of the Monasteries

and effectively ceased to function after 1886.

History

The Church of

Edward Iliffe, son of Lord Iliffe, was appointed Postmaster".^[4] William Burham, a saddle and harness maker had a shop in the village from 1901 until his death in the early 1960s. A collection of his leather working tools is in the Museum of English Rural Life.^[5]

Amenities

Yattendon has a shop, post office, garage, pub/hotel, hairdressers, blacksmith, primary school, Montessori school, tennis courts and brewery as well as houses and cottages rented to tenants.

St. Paul which is Grade I.^[7]

Notable people

Notable residents of Yattendon include:

Poet Laureate, lived at Yattendon until 1882, where he compiled the Yattendon Hymnal
.

rectory

and was buried in the church.

General Sir Miles Dempsey, British Army officer who fought in World War I and World War II.
Yattendon Estate in 1955. It covers nearly 9,000 acres (36 km²) of farmland, woodland, grazing and Christmas tree plantations.^[8]

Ruth Mott, cook and TV presenter, was born in the village. She was a technical advisor on the 2001 Robert Altman film Gosford Park.^{[citation needed]}
Egon Ronay the restaurant critic, lived in Yattendon until his death in 2010.
Alfred Waterhouse, the architect of the Natural History Museum who built himself a home at Yattendon Court (not the present building).

The fortified manor house, Yattendon Castle was home of:

Sir Henry Norreys, a Tudor courtier accused of adultery with Queen Anne Boleyn and the father of
Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norreys, Ambassador to France and father of
Sir John Norreys, the greatest soldier of Elizabethan England whose memorial is in the parish church.

References

^ Key Statistics: Dwellings; Quick Statistics: Population Density; Physical Environment: Land Use Survey 2005
^ "Inside Britain's privately owned villages". Country Life. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
^ "Church of St. Peter and St. Paul A Grade I Listed Building in Yattendon, West Berkshire". BritishListedBuildings. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
^ "Yattendon Village Stores & Post Office". YATTENDON ESTATE. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
^ "Burnham, William (saddler)". The Museum of English Rural Life. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
^ "Living at Yattendon". YATTENDON ESTATE. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
^ "Listed Buildings in Yattendon, West Berkshire". BritishListedBuildings. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
^ "The thirty landowners who own half a county". Who owns England?.

External links

[ons-1] Key Statistics: Dwellings; Quick Statistics: Population Density; Physical Environment: Land Use Survey 2005

[2] "Inside Britain's privately owned villages". Country Life. Retrieved 14 April 2021.

[3] "Church of St. Peter and St. Paul A Grade I Listed Building in Yattendon, West Berkshire". BritishListedBuildings. Retrieved 14 April 2021.

[4] "Yattendon Village Stores & Post Office". YATTENDON ESTATE. Retrieved 27 February 2020.

[5] "Burnham, William (saddler)". The Museum of English Rural Life. Retrieved 27 February 2020.

[6] "Living at Yattendon". YATTENDON ESTATE. Retrieved 14 April 2021.

[7] "Listed Buildings in Yattendon, West Berkshire". BritishListedBuildings. Retrieved 14 April 2021.

[8] "The thirty landowners who own half a county". Who owns England?.

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v t e Settlements in West Berkshire
Towns	Hungerford Newbury civil parishes and have town councils)
Civil parishes	Aldermaston Aldworth Ashampstead Basildon Beech Hill Beedon Beenham Boxford Bradfield Brightwalton Brimpton Bucklebury Burghfield Catmore Chaddleworth Chieveley Cold Ash Combe Compton East Garston East Ilsley Enborne Englefield Farnborough Fawley Frilsham Great Shefford Greenham Hampstead Marshall Hampstead Norreys Hermitage Holybrook Inkpen Kintbury Lambourn Leckhampstead Midgham Padworth Pangbourne Peasemore Purley on Thames Shaw-cum-Donnington Speen Stanford Dingley Stratfield Mortimer Streatley Sulham Sulhamstead Theale Tidmarsh Tilehurst Ufton Nervet Wasing Welford West Woodhay West Ilsley Winterbourne Wokefield Woolhampton Yattendon
Other villages and hamlets	Aldermaston Wharf Ashmore Green Avington Bagnor Beansheaf Farm Beedon Common Benham Hill Bloomfield Hatch Brightwalton Green Brimpton Common Burghfield Bridge Burnt Hill Calcot Chapel Row Colthrop Crockham Heath Crookham Donnington Eastbury Eddington Elcot Eling Enborne Row Fords Farm Goddard's Green Halfway Heads Hill Hell Corner Hoe Benham Honey Bottom Hungerford Newtown Hunts Green Hyde End Inkpen Common Lambourn Woodlands Little Heath Lower Basildon Lower Denford Lower Padworth Marlston Marsh Benham Midgham Green Mortimer/Mortimer Common Ownham Padworth Common Shaw Shefford Woodlands Snelsmore South Fawley Stockcross Tilehurst Upper Basildon Upper Denford Upper Eddington Upper Lambourn Upper Woolhampton Wash Common Wash Water Weston Wickham Wickham Heath Woodlands St Mary Woodspeen World's End