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Wasing
Wasing is an agricultural and woodland village, country estate and parish in West Berkshire, England owned almost wholly by the descendants of the Mount family, currently Joshua Dugdale. In local administration, its few inhabitants convene their own civil parish, but share many facilities with Brimpton which was in its civil parish at the time of the 2011 Census. Geography Wasing has fields on the Berkshire-Hampshire border and is approximately south-east of Newbury. Its nearest village with general amenities is Aldermaston and its nearest town is Tadley. Its western boundary is the River Enborne, which flows through the range of downs starting at the south of the parish which rises to the highest point in the south-east, Walbury Hill west. Wasing Wood Ponds is a site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). Wasing Place Wasing Place, Wasing Park, and the Wasing Estate, including woodland, are largely owned and managed by Joshua Dugdale, who inherited them from his mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wasing
Wasing is an agricultural and woodland village, country estate and parish in West Berkshire, England owned almost wholly by the descendants of the Mount family, currently Joshua Dugdale. In local administration, its few inhabitants convene their own civil parish, but share many facilities with Brimpton which was in its civil parish at the time of the 2011 Census. Geography Wasing has fields on the Berkshire-Hampshire border and is approximately south-east of Newbury. Its nearest village with general amenities is Aldermaston and its nearest town is Tadley. Its western boundary is the River Enborne, which flows through the range of downs starting at the south of the parish which rises to the highest point in the south-east, Walbury Hill west. Wasing Wood Ponds is a site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). Wasing Place Wasing Place, Wasing Park, and the Wasing Estate, including woodland, are largely owned and managed by Joshua Dugdale, who inherited them from his mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joshua Dugdale
Thomas Joshua Stratford Dugdale (born 20 September 1974) is a British farmer, estate owner and documentary film-maker. Education and personal life He attended Eton College, studied economics at the University of Manchester, and law at City, University of London. He has two children, Lily and Salvador, with author Sasha Norris, and two further children, Ferdinand and Francis, with Diana Redvers, who he married in 2009. In 2016 he signed an open letter to the Times against Brexit on behalf of British business leaders, and in 2018 he became patron of the West Berkshire Mencap. Career Documentary film His 2002 film for the BBC, ''LAPD Blues'', won the highest ratings of that year for a BBC current affairs documentary. In 2005–2008 he made a three-year biopic of the fourteenth Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso, ''The Unwinking Gaze''. In this film he recorded the Dalai Lama as a leader of the Tibetan people, rather than portraying him as spiritual leader in Tibetan Buddhism as is done cus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wasing Wood Ponds
Wasing Wood Ponds is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Aldermaston in Berkshire. The ponds are special for their range of Odonata. Geography The site is a group of ponds, wet ditches and marshy areas partly in the Woods and partly on open ground formerly excavated for gravel. It is in two different areas, which are private land, but a public footpath crosses one of them. Fauna The site has the following animals Invertebrates *Cordulia aenea * Brilliant emerald *Sympetrum sanguineum * Erythromma najas Flora The site has the following Flora: Trees *Birch A birch is a thin-leaved deciduous hardwood tree of the genus ''Betula'' (), in the family Betulaceae, which also includes alders, hazels, and hornbeams. It is closely related to the beech-oak family Fagaceae. The genus ''Betula'' contains 30 ... References {{SSSIs Berks Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Berkshire Wasing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aldermaston
Aldermaston is a village and civil parish in Berkshire, England. In the 2011 Census, the parish had a population of 1015. The village is in the Kennet Valley and bounds Hampshire to the south. It is approximately from Newbury, Basingstoke, and Reading and is from London. Aldermaston may have been inhabited as early as 1690 BCE; a number of postholes and remains of cereal grains have been found in the area. Written history of the village is traced back at least as far as the 9th century, when the ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicles'' showed that the Ealdorman of Berkshire had his country estate in the village. The manor of Aldermaston was established by the early 11th century, when the village was given to the Achard family by Henry I; the manor is documented in the Domesday Book of 1086. St Mary the Virgin Church was established in the 13th century, and some of the original Norman architecture remains in the building's structure. The last resident Lord of the Manor, Charles Keyse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Mount (Isle Of Wight MP)
William Mount DL of Wasing Place, Berkshire (21 November 1787 – 10 April 1869) was a British Tory politician. He was the son of William Mount (3 January 1753 – 15 June 1815) and his wife (m. 4 October 1781) Jenny (? – 11 October 1843), daughter of Thomas Page. His paternal grandfather, John Mount (? – 1786; son of William Mount and Jane Huckell), High Sheriff of Berkshire in 1770, built Wasing Place. The Mount family were in business as stationers at Tower Hill, London from the late seventeenth century. He is the great-great-grandfather of Ferdinand Mount and the great-great-great-grandfather of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron. He was educated at Eton College (1802–05) and Oriel College, Oxford (1805). William Mount was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Yarmouth from 1818 to 1819 and for Newport, Isle of Wight from 1831 to 1832. He was appointed High Sheriff of Berkshire for 1826–27. He married, on 27 June 1818, Charlotte (d. 17 January 1879), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir William Mount, 1st Baronet
Sir William Arthur Mount, 1st Baronet CBE DL (Hartley, Hampshire, 3 August 1866 – 8 December 1930) was a British Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament for the Newbury constituency. He is the great-grandfather of Conservative politician David Cameron, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016. Early life The eldest son of William George Mount of Wasing Place, Berkshire and wife Marianne Emily Clutterbuck, he was educated at Eton College and New College, Oxford where he achieved honours in classics and modern history. Career Law and politics He was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1893. Between 1896 and 1903 he served as assistant private secretary to two Chancellors of Exchequer, Sir Michael Hicks Beach (later Viscount St. Aldwyn) and (from October 1902) Charles Thomson Ritchie (later Lord Ritchie of Dundee). After his father stepped down as member for the South, or Newbury division of Berkshire in 1900 he was elected and served ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civil Parishes In Berkshire
A civil parish is a country subdivision, forming the lowest unit of local government in England. There are 104 civil parishes in the ceremonial county of Berkshire, most of the county being parished; Reading is completely unparished; Bracknell Forest, West Berkshire and Wokingham are entirely parished. At the 2001 census, there were 483,882 people living in the 104 parishes, accounting for 60.5 per cent of the county's population. History Parishes arose from Church of England divisions, and were originally purely ecclesiastical divisions. Over time they acquired civil administration powers.Angus Winchester, 2000, ''Discovering Parish Boundaries''. Shire Publications. Princes Risborough, 96 pages The Highways Act 1555 made parishes responsible for the upkeep of roads. Every adult inhabitant of the parish was obliged to work four days a year on the roads, providing their own tools, carts and horses; the work was overseen by an unpaid local appointee, the ''Surveyor of Highways ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brimpton
Brimpton is a mostly rural village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in West Berkshire, England. Brimpton is centred boxing the compass, ESE of the town of Newbury, Berkshire, Newbury. Toponymy One suggested origin of the name of Brimpton comes from "Brynni's Town"; Brynni was an Anglo-Saxon England, Anglo-Saxon owner of the land. A more likely explanation is that Brimpton stands on a hill, and the name comes from a Old English, Saxo-Celtic language, Celtic version of "Hill Town"; the Celtic word for hill being "bryn". This name was probably coined in reference to the Iron Age settlement. Brimpton has also been recorded as Brinniggetun and Bryningtune (in the 10th century) and Brintone (in the 11th century). More recent alternative names include Brinton, Brimton, Brumton and Brumpton. Geography The village occupies a few square miles of land south of the Kennet and Avon Canal and the A4 road (Great Britain), A4 road, and north of the River Enborne, Enborne which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William George Mount
William George Mount DL (18 July 1824 – 14 January 1906) was a British landowner, Conservative politician, and the first Member of Parliament for the Newbury constituency. He was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford.‘MOUNT, William George’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2014 The son of William Mount, of Wasing Place, Berkshire, he became a Magistrate in 1851, and High Sheriff in 1877. He was narrowly elected in the general election of 1885, beating his Liberal opponent by 202 votes. He was chairman of Quarter Sessions from 1887 to 1902, and was the first Chairman of Berkshire County Council from 1889 to 1906. He served as MP for Newbury for 15 years until standing down at the 1900 general election. He was the father of Sir William Mount, 1st Baronet, brother-in-law of Richard Fellowes Benyon, MP, of Englefield and great-great grandfather to David Cameron, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount & Page
Mount & Page was a firm of religious and maritime publishers that flourished in the eighteenth century. The name became well-known worldwide as an imprint of nautical charts. The firm was founded in 1701 by Richard Mount (1654–1722) and Thomas Page (active 1700-1733). Mount had previously been in partnership with his father-in-law William Fisher (1631–1692) and inherited the business on the latter's death. As Mount & Page the firm flourished throughout the 18th century and made the fortunes of both families, helped by government contracts. Successive generations of Mounts and Pages worked in the business, and the families intermarried. One of its staple titles was ''Navigatio Britannica'' by John Barrow (historian), John Barrow, published in 1750 and still being advertised in 1787.ODNB entry for John Barrow ( (fl. 1735–1774)Retrieved 18 July 2011. Subscription required./ref> By the 1760s, Richard Mount's grandson John Mount (1725–1786) was able to retire to Berkshire whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villages In Berkshire
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Though villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighborhoods. Villages are normally permanent, with fixed dwellings; however, transient villages can occur. Further, the dwellings of a village are fairly close to one another, not scattered broadly over the landscape, as a dispersed settlement. In the past, villages were a usual form of community for societies that practice subsistence agriculture, and also for some non-agricultural societies. In Great Britain, a hamlet earned the right to be called a village when it built a church. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Listed Building
In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland. The term has also been used in the Republic of Ireland, where buildings are protected under the Planning and Development Act 2000. The statutory term in Ireland is " protected structure". A listed building may not be demolished, extended, or altered without special permission from the local planning authority, which typically consults the relevant central government agency, particularly for significant alterations to the more notable listed buildings. In England and Wales, a national amenity society must be notified of any work to a listed building which involves any element of demolition. Exemption from secular listed building control is provided for some buildings in current use for worship, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
